Enrico Caviglia

Enrico Caviglia KCB was a distinguished officer in the Italian Army. Victorious on the bloody battlefields of the Great War, he rose in time to the highest rank in his country, Marshal of Italy he was also a Senator of the kingdom.

Caviglia was born in Finalmarina , the sixth son of Pietro Caviglia and Antonietta Saccone. After early studies in his hometown, in 1877 he gained admission to the military college in Milan. Later on, in 1880 he became a cadet in the Military Academy of Turin three years later he received his first promotion to Second Lieutenant in the artillery corps. Caviglia took part in the African campaign of 188889 in Eritrea as a First Lieutenant in the II Artillery regiment in 1891 he was admitted to the War School.

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