Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo. The Italians are overwhelmed between Bovec and Tolmin at Caporetto. At Caporetto in particular, the defeat is complete: 280,000 prisoners, 350,000 stragglers, 40,000 dead, 3,150 artillery pieces (two-thirds of the Italian army’s total) in enemy hands, 3,000 heavy machine guns abandoned, 400,000 civilian refugees flooding into Veneto.
