Luigi Cadorna  Cadorna, Luigi (lōēˈjē kädôrˈnä) [key],
1850–1928, Italian field marshal. His father, Raffaele Cadorna,
was a general in the wars of the Risorgimento and took Rome in
1870. Luigi Cadorna, a count, became the head of the army
general staff and reorganized the Italian army before World War
I. Until the Italian defeat at Caporetto in 1917 he was in fact
commander of military operations, while King Victor Emmanuel III
was nominally commander in chief. Cadorna wrote two military
works on World War I and a biography of his father.   See more
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