 After Caporetto, the Austria-Hungarian advance was forced to stop anyway due to lack of supplies, and after almost a year the Italians were able to reinforce and regain this territory by destroying the Austro-Hungarian Army in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, which defeat led to the final end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.The huge war memorial from 1938 contains the corpses of 39,857 identified Italian soldiers, and 69,330 unidentified.In a nearby cemetery are buried another around 14,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers.