Battle of Vittorio Veneto

Battle of Vittorio Veneto
	Part of the Italian Front of World War I
	; Map of the battle
Date	24 October – 4 November 1918
Location	Vittorio, Kingdom of Italy45°57′21″N 12°20′49″E / 45.95583°N 12.34694°E
Result	Italian victory Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire;
Belligerents
Italy ; United Kingdom ; France ; United States	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Armando Diaz	AD. Joseph August; Alexander von Krobatin; Svetozar Boroević
Strength
c. 1,486,200 personnel 1,415,000 personnel; 40,000 personnel; 25,000 personnel; 1,200 personnel; 900 aircraft; 7,700 artillery pieces; ;	1,800,000 personnel; 6,145 artillery pieces
Casualties and losses
40,917 38,000 7,000 killed; 23,000 wounded; 8,000 missing and captured; ; 2,139; 778; 8; ;	528,000 30,000 killed; 50,000 wounded; 448,000 captured; 5,000+ artillery pieces captured; ;

The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought from 24 October to 3 November 1918 (with an armistice taking effect 24 hours later) near Vittorio Veneto on the Italian Front during World War I. After having thoroughly defeated Austro-Hungarian troops during the defensive Battle of the Piave River, the Royal Italian Army launched a great counter-offensive: the Italian victory marked the end of the war on the Italian Front, secured the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and contributed to the end of the First World War just one week later. The battle led to the capture of over 5,000 artillery pieces and over 350,000 Austro-Hungarian troops, including 120,000 Germans, 83,000 Czechs and Slovaks, 60,000 South Slavs, 40,000 Poles, several tens of thousands of Romanians and Ukrainians, and 7,000 Austro-Hungarian loyalist Italians and Friulians.