Executive summary by darmansjah
Quadrilatero is the traditional name of a defensive system
of the Austrian Empire in the Lombardy-Venetia, which connected the fortresses
of Peschiera, Mantua, Legnago and Verona between the Mincio, the Po and Adige
Rivers. In the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the
Revolutions of 1848, they were the only fully modernized and armed fortresses
within the Empire.
The experience of the Second Italian Independence War of
1859, in which rifled guns had been used for the first time by the Italian
Army, pushed the Austrians to build a second line of 8 forts, at c. 4
kilometers from the main line (completed in the spring of 1866), pivoting
around Verona.
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