Battle of Hill 383

Battle of Hill 383
Part of the Italian Front (World War I)
Austrian illustration of fighting on Hill 383 in June 1915 (1915)
Date 9 June 1915 – 14 May 1917 Location Prižnica mountain near Plave, north-west Slovenia 46°02′37″N 13°35′55″E / 46.04361°N 13.59861°E / 46.04361; 13.59861 Result Final Italian victory
Belligerents
Italy	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Cadorna (Chief of Staff of the Italian Army) Gustavo Reisoli (Commander of 2nd Army Corps)	Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (Chief of the General Staff) Archduke Eugen of Austria-Teschen (Commander of Southwest Front) Svetozar Boroević von Bojna (Commander of Fifth Army) Guido Novak von Arienti (Commander of 1st Mountain Brigade)

The Battle of Hill 383 was a military engagement between the armies of Austria-Hungary and Italy on the Italian front of World War I, lasting from June 1915 to May 1917. The battle took place on a hill later called Mount Prižnica (Italian: Poggio Montanari), located across the river Soča (Italian: Isonzo) from the town of Plave in Austria-Hungary (present-day Slovenia). The Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies clashed for two years in an attempt to occupy it; the bloodiest clash occurred on 17 June 1915 when General Luigi Cadorna wanted to offer king Victor Emmanuel III a conquest which he could witness in person. This "demonstration" caused the death of over 8,000 men who were massacred in a frontal attack against Austrian machine guns. The fighting was continuing for the next two years,^[1] until Mount Prižnica was taken by Italians during the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo.