Identifier: italyatwarallies01powe (find matches)
Title: Italy at war and the allies in the west
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander), 1879-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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farmhouses clustered to-gether for common protection, in the stoutwalls and loopholed watch-towers of its towns,record of its warlike and eventful past. Onemust be prosaic indeed whose imagination re-mains unstirred by a journey across this his-toric plain, which has been invaded by Celts,Istrians, and Romans; Huns, Goths, and Lom-bards; Franks, Germans, and Austrians in turn.Over there, a dozen miles to the southward, liethe ruins of Aquileia, once one of the greatcities of the western world, the chief outpostfortress of the Roman Empire, visited by KingHerod of Judea, and the favorite residence ofAugustus and Diocletian. These fertile low-lands were devastated by Alaric and hisVisigoths and by Attila and his Huns—theoriginal Huns, I mean. Down this very high-road tramped the legions of Tiberius on theirway to give battle to the Illyrians and Pan-nonians. Here were waged the savage conflictsof the Guelphs, the Ghibellines, and the Scali-gers. Here fought the great adventurer, Bar-
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A Sky-Company of Alpini. The soldiers wear coats of white to render them invisible against the expansesof snow.

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