The Capture Of Trent was an Italian success over Austrian forces on November the 3rd 1918 during the Great War. The offensive of General Diaz against the Austrians, which began at the fourth week of October 1918, in the Monte Grappa and Middle Piave areas, and at the end of the month on the Asiago Plateau, was extended to the whole Trentino area, from the Astico on the south-east to the Stelvio Pass on the north-west, by the coming into action of the 1st and 7th Italian armies on November the 2nd.
On November the 2nd the first army captured Monte Majo, attacked the Borcola Pass in the Posina sector, took Monte Cimone on the Tonezza Plateau and made other gains; while the seventh army captured Col Santo, north of Pasubio, forced the Vallarsa, east of Lake Garda, and near the Swiss frontier broke the Austrian front on the Selle del Tonale, thereafter marching up the Vermiglio Valley. In the afternoon the Italians advanced on both sides of Lake Garda, and in the evening held Rovereto.
On November the 3rd the British belonging to the sixth army occupied Levico, south-east of Trent, the evacuation of which by the Austrians had begun on November the 1st, and the Italian cavalry entered unopposed in the afternoon of November the 3rd. Research Capture Of Trent
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