Battle of Caporetto
Battle of Caporetto was a battle fought on 24 October 1917 at Kobarid, in what is now Italy; it lasted 26 days. It was part of World War I, which ran from 1914 to 1918. The recorded result: Central Powers victory.
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Fought 24 October 1917 lasted 26 days
Where Kobarid, Italy 46.214N, 13.643E
Outcome Central Powers victory
Where it sits in World War I Battle of Arras, 1914 Skirmish at Joncherey, 1914 Battle of the Meuse, 1914 Battle of Lake Nyasa, 1914 Battle of Cer, 1914 Battle of Antivari, 1914 Battle of Mörchingen and Dieuze, 1914 Battle of Dornach, 1914 Battle of Donon, 1914 Battle of Río de Oro, 1914 Battle of Tannenberg, 1914 Battle of Galicia, 1914 Action of Elouges, 1914 Battle of Mulhouse, 1914 Battle of the Trouée de Charmes, 1914 Battle of Odensholm, 1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight, 1914 Action at Néry, 1914 Battle of Senlis, 1914 Battle of Drina, 1914 Battle of Vitry, 1914 First Battle of the Masurian Lakes, 1914 Siege of Przemyśl, 1914 Battle of Zanzibar, 1914 Action of 22 September 1914, 1914 Bombardment of Papeete, 1914 Battle of Sandfontein, 1914 Battle of the Vistula River, 1914 Battle of Rufiji Delta, 1914 Battle of Monchy-au-Bois, 1914 Battle off Texel, 1914 Battle of Penang, 1914 Battle of Coronel, 1914 Bergmann Offensive, 1914 Battle of Tanga, 1914 Battle of Cocos, 1914 Myth of Langemarck, 1914 Battle of Kolubara, 1914 Defence of Festubert, 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914 Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, 1914 Battle of Sarikamish, 1914 Battle of Givenchy, 1914 Battle of Łowczówek, 1914 Battle of the Bosporus, 1915 Battle of Jassin, 1915 Battle of Rafajlowa, 1915 Battle of Dogger Bank, 1915 Siege of Mbombwe, 1915 Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, 1915 Battle of Vauquois, 1915 Battle of Más a Tierra, 1915 Battle of Les Éparges, 1915 Battle of Zwinin, 1915 Landing at Anzac Cove, 1915 First Battle of Krithia, 1915 Battle off Noordhinder Bank, 1915 Second Battle of Krithia, 1915 Battle of Arras, 1915 Bombardment of Ancona, 1915 Battle of Festubert, 1915 Defense of Msho, 1915 Third Battle of Krithia, 1915 Charge of Rokitna, 1915 Battle of Bukoba, 1915 Battle of Bitlis, 1915 Battle of Åland Islands, 1915 Battle of Jastków, 1915 Battle of Chunuk Bair, 1915 Battle of the Gulf of Riga, 1915 Battle of Molodechno, 1915 Fall of Belgrade (1915), 1915 Battle of Linge, 1915 Battle of Baranovichi, 1915 Operation Hamadan, 1915 Battle of Niš (1915), 1915 Battle of Krivolak, 1915 Battle of Durazzo, 1915 Battle of Asiago, 1916 Battle of Kostiuchnówka, 1916 Battles of Çapakçur, 1916 Action of 8 January 1916, 1916 Actions of the Bluff, 1916, 1916 Recapture of Fort Vaux, 1916 Battle of Mojkovac, 1916 Battle of Lovćen, 1916 Trebizond Campaign, 1916 Battle of Dogger Bank, 1916 Battle of Salaita Hill, 1916 Action of 29 February 1916, 1916 First Battle of Ķekava, 1916 Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, 1916 Gas attack at Hulluch, 1916 Battle of Jutland, 1916 Night action at the Battle of Jutland, 1916 Battle of Erzincan, 1916 Action of 19 August 1916, 1916 Battle of Mlali, 1916 Battle of Pozières, 1916 Battle of Kisaki, 1916 Battle of Ginchy, 1916 Romanian Army offensive in Transylvania in 1916, 1916 Battle of Dover Strait, 1916 Noemvriana, 1916 Battle of Magdhaba, 1916 Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line, 1917 Battle of Rafa, 1917 Action of 10 March 1917, 1917 Action of 16 March 1917, 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917 Second Battle of Dover Strait, 1917 Action of 4 May 1917, 1917 Battle of the Strait of Otranto, 1917 Battle of Mount Ortigara, 1917 Battle of Hill 70, 1917 Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, 1917 Second Battle of Verdun, 1917 Operation Albion, 1917 Battle of Mahiwa, 1917 Action off Lerwick, 1917 Battle of Caporetto, 1917 Battle of Jerusalem, 1917 Second Battle of Heligoland Bight, 1917 Action of 17 November 1917, 1917 Battle of Ngomano, 1917 Action of 11–12 December 1917, 1917 Battle of Karakilisa, 1918 Second Battle of Cambrai, 1918 Battle of St. Quentin Canal, 1918 Battle of San Matteo, 1918 Battle of the Three Mountains, 1918 Battle of Tafilah, 1918 Action of 15 February 1918, 1918 Operation Faustschlag, 1918 Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet, 1918 Battle of Moreuil Wood, 1918 Action of 4 April 1918, 1918 Battle of the Avre, 1918 Battle of Markem, 1918 Zeebrugge Raid, 1918 Action of 8 May 1918, 1918 Second Battle of Morlancourt, 1918 Battle of Sardarabad, 1918 Battle of Cantigny, 1918 Battle of Skra-di-Legen, 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1918 Third Battle of Morlancourt, 1918 Battle of Vorontsovka, 1918 Sinking of ships of the Black Sea Fleet in Tsemes Bay, 1918 Battle of the Piave River, 1918 Battle of Château-Thierry, 1918 Battle of Baku, 1918 Action of 5 September 1918, 1918 Battle of Saint-Mihiel, 1918 Battle of Dobro Pole, 1918 Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub, 1918 Battle of Saint-Thierry, 1918 Liberation of Krakow, 1918 Battle of Vittorio Veneto, 1918 Scuttling of the German Fleet in Scapa Flow, 1919 1914 1919 Battle of Caporetto, 1917 161 placed engagements of World War I in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.
Record
Date 24 October 1917to 19 November 1917 Place Kobarid, Italy46.214N, 13.643E Kind Battle, First World War Territorial change Central Powers advance 150 to the Piave River
Battle of Caporetto Battle of Caporetto Fifth Battle of the Isonzo Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo Battle of Hill 383 Battles of the Isonzo Tenth Battle of the Isonzo Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo Battles of the Isonzo Tenth Battle of the Isonzo Venice Graz Trieste Innsbruck Maribor Bolzano Klagenfurt Treviso 100 km 46.214N, 13.643E The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.
Combat data (CDB90)
Attacker: GER-AUS 5TH, 10TH & 14TH ARMIESDefender: IT 2ND, 3RD & 4TH ARMIESStrength 602,000 574,000 Casualties 20,000 (3.3%) 305,000 (53.1%) Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 8 2 Outcome attacker won Duration 2 days Front width 160 km 160 km Attacker advanced 130.2 km
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 324), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.
Battle of Caporetto is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 942 in present-day Italy.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q242644 , released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Caporetto , revision 1383757405, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.
