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Supreme Command's war bulletins, while other actions of this army were mentioned in five other war bulletins. On August 23, 1917 he assumed command of the Naples Corps, and after the war, on January 5, 1919 of the Florence Corps. It was in Florence that he died suddenly on October 8 of the same year. The commander of the 3rd Army, the Duke of Aosta wrote to his widow:
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With anguished heart I express to you and your family the most sincere expression of condolences for the painful loss of
General Cigliana, my devoted collaborator and dear friend. The flags of the Third Army bend reverently before the tomb of the ancient Commander of the XI Corps which comes from the
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In the seventh, eighth and ninth battle of the Isonzo, fought in the second half of 1916, the troops of the XI Corps reached beyond Veliki
Kriback and Dosso Faiti. After the tenth battle of the Isonzo (May 1917) he left the command of the XI Army Corps. Under the command of General Cigliana, this
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explaining the political and military dangers the Colony was undergoing. The Office merely took note of the situation described but did not share the forecasts. A few months later the military situation in Libya deteriorated. The rebels completely destroyed some internal garrisons, so that the
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Cigliana, Giuseppe Cesare Maria Cigliana, I Generali Cigliana, in Il Nastro Azzurro, n. 2, Roma, Istituto del Nastro Azzurro, March–April 2012, pp. 22-24.
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