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The Ticino, the Adda, the Mincio, if you look at them close, reveal themselves as tributaries of the Po, which once flowed separately into the Lombard bay; the Adige, the Piave, the Tagliamento farther along the coast, reveal themselves equally as tributaries of the future Po, when once the great river shall have filled up with its mud the space between Trieste and Venice, though for the moment they empty themselves and their store of detritus into the open Adriatic.
The Italian line stiffened and stood upon the Piave, while the Allied reinforcements were still on the further side of the Alps.
From Pavia to Mantua, from Como to Brescia, the streets ran blood like the arteries of one great body. At Pavia and Padua the universities were closed. The frightened vice-roy was preparing to withdraw from Milan to Verona, and Radetsky continued to pour his men across the Alps, till a hundred thousand were massed between the Piave and the Ticino. And now every eye was turned to Turin.
The Austro-German offensive continued steadily for three weeks and on November 21 was being pressed on three main fronts: First, along the Piave River; second, from the Piave to the Brenta; third, from the Brenta across the Asiago Plateau. The Italian troops were holding firm and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
Is that man a coward who sacrifices himself, his father and mother, his wife and children for the sake of his nation and country? "Is that Czech soldier not a hero who to-day is voluntarily fighting from the Ural Mountains to Vladivostok, on the Piave and in France? "If there is a single gentleman, a real gentleman among you, let him stand up and answer these questions.
June 15 Austrians begin another drive on Italy and take 16,000 prisoners. June 17 Italians check Austrians on Piave river. June 19 Austrians cross the Piave, June 22 Italians defeat Austrians on the Piave. June 23 Austrians begin great retreat across the Piave. July 18 -Gen. Foch launches allied offensive, with French, American, British, Italian and Belgian troops.
"Ernani," a tragic opera in four acts, words by F.M. Piave, the subject taken from Victor Hugo's tragedy of "Hernani," was first produced at Venice, March 9, 1844. The earlier performances of the opera gave the composer much trouble.
The inferiority of the Italian Army to its enemies, both in numbers and in material, was thus sharply increased. But the Italians held grimly on; they turned at bay on the Piave and in the mountains, and checked the onrush of Austrians and Germans.
When we parted I said, "May we all meet again on the field of victory beyond the Piave. Long live the Greater Rumania!" And they all cried, "Long live England! Long live victory!"
But the Cabinet at Rome had rejected these recommendations and ordered that the Piave line should be held at all costs, and the valour of the Italian common soldier had triumphed over the forebodings of the generals. On the 8th, our re-equipment being at last complete, we were warned to join the XIth British Corps on the arrival of our transport.
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