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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Naval guns placed at the mouth of the Isonzo sweptAustrian positions with a terrific fire. Shells passedthrough and even beyond Mirimar, where the former un-happy Empress Carlotta of Mexico lived so long, which isless than two miles from Trieste. The Italian batteriesadvanced in the open unprotected and without cover. By August 26 Monte Santo had fallen. The tricolorof Italy, carried up its slopes by the battalion which hadassaulted it from its steepest side, was unfurled from along stone heap crowning the hill at a point where oncestood a beautiful old monastery. It could be seen theredistinctly by troops who were far below at Cucco, or inthe Isonzo valley, and by watchers from the grim slopesof Santa Caternia and Gorizias ruined suburb of Salcano.Eyes, field-glasses, and telescopes of artillery-observers atonce converged on it from a thousand points of the battle-line. The news of its fall traveled to the uttermost endsof the front, so that the cheers of the victors on the sum- 86
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87 IN THE EAST, NEAR EAST, AND SOUTH mit of the hill found a distinct echo from troops who hadbeen consolidated at Selo, on the Carso. Monte Santo,which looks north and south across the whole battle-area,had been a symbol of Austrian strength. Its fall ensuedas a result of the great operation which began on August18, when the Second Army threw the first of fourteenbridges across the Isonzo under the shifting glare of search-lights and the fire of Austrian shrapnel. Their objectivelay before them beyond a chain of precipitous, woodedhills which flank the river on its eastern bank and lead uptoward the great forest-clad plateau of Bainsizza and acrossto the big Chiapovano valley, whose roads were the line ofthe chief Austrian communications north and south withthe Isonzo. Any Italian advance in this direction becamea menace to these sections of the Austrian line.^ The Italian army had been fighting a week with valorand dash, from Tolmino to Gorizia, and through the rocky,pitiless height

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