The Arditi: Italy's Elite and Daring Shock Troops of World War One
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The Arditi were Italian shock troops developed to break out of the prolonged stalemate on the front lines against the Austro-Hungarian army in Northern Italy during World War One.
Known as "The Daring Ones," they were among the bravest and most courageous troops of the war due to their fearless charges of enemy trenches with only daggers and grenades as their main weapons.
Trained in 14th Century martial arts and fencing, the Arditi were masters of close quarters and hand-to-hand combat. Utilizing speed and surprise, they were highly effective in seizing enemy positions and causing terror among their opponents. The Arditi were among the main contributors in finally defeating the Austro-Hungarian army in November 1918.
Prelude and Action: Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)
It was actually even scarier. Arditi were rewarded with prizes from bringing back weapons and live prisoners, especially officers. So not only were they fighting hand to hand, but they'd even try to capture people.
Oh regular soldiers aren't cutting it you say? Raise a division of RAMBOS!
ancestors of Sylvester Stallone
waddietwo
Yeah they would fucken stab and beat up the opponents to death giving them a taste of good old Italian traditions...
Few people know that Italians invented roughly 80% of all tools/weapons to horribly kill, mangle or torture people.
I had a friend whose grandfather was an Arditi ,my father who in WW 2, was a Marine who had been on the "Long Patrol" in Guadalcanal said that Ernie's grandfather was on of the toughest, scariest men he'd ever known.
My grandfather was an Alpino. Elite mountaineer troops. Mountain Artillery regiment. He fought and died in Russia.
A couple of years ago Russians have found his dogtags into a mass graveyard. I'm still waiting his body to come back home to give him dignity sepolture.
@@danielefabbro822 Where was he found, if I may ask ? From mine and other nearby towns next to the Fiume Piave many people died not far from Stalingrad trying to hold the line for the Germans. I know people whose grandfather where killed there
@@klausm.3035 I only know that he's still in Russia.
What Balls!!!
Taking a knife to a gunfight...Respect!
Forza Italia
kinda cool, annoyed from this boring trench warfare which brought no result, they get bored and thinking c'mon man, take a knife and jump on the enemy trench, what's the problem :DD
The arditi had ancient Roman souls
U got an. Ancient babylonian annunaki soul
@@goblinkillahd8396 I proudly have one
@@LiuxueDeYueliang 2 yrs ago, damn,....
2:45 that similarity is in Romanian national anthem.
"Now or never,
We better dye in battle,
Liberty in life,
Or death we cry all."
In the past centuries, Rumanians and Italians built railroads together. We even have restored taverns, food recipes and street names from does times.
Grenade = pilum, dagger = gladius
Sadly they forgot their scutum
Pictus would be more appropriate.
@@SamFreelancePolice they didn't forget their scrotum
@@SamFreelancePolice they didn't. They used helmets and body armors
@@SamFreelancePolice but not their scrotum
I wonder how they were so quick with their giant steel balls slowing them down...
Probably slung em over their shoulders and back around the front again. Useful as body armour.
elité comment
@@KingFluffs and elité answer
100%!!!
All around elitism
Grandpa was one of em
Hand to hand and knife fight was a mix of Roman, medieval fencing (flos bellatorum) and martial arts (kali, eskrima, judo), teached by navy enforcers who served in Asia
A knife used more than army's daggers were the Sardinian resolza, folder knives with very sharp points, bayonets were too long and daggers were not so well pointed
sei italiano?
nella foto a 4:34 m c'è il il nonno o il bisnonno di un mio amico non mi ricordo bene
@@nemicofitid3617 sì
Ik ben zelf mesinstructeur en dit is zeer interessant.
@@ron1743 bedankt
A number of ARDITI delle FIAMME NERE (Arditi of the Black Flames) of about 130 suvivors after one of the usual fearless assaults had been sieged by the Austrians (over 4000 men) in the town of Pontvecchio and quickly ran out of all ammunition...so the commander ordered an extreme attempt for that very night loyal to the motto "o la vittoria o tutti accoppati" (either Victory or we all die together).
Well...a number of about 80 Arditi managed to surviv and break the siege, literally "a calci, pugni e morsi" (with kicks, punches and bites).
Sandro Bindelli
My great great grandfather fought at the river Piave and he told my grandmother that that night the river was red.
Men had balls of damn steel
Thank you! Very good video . Honor to Italian Soldiers !
'We all win or we all die' reminds me of the SAS 'he who dares wins'. I had not heard of this elite force & appreciate the video. Grazie.
The SAS motto was "pinched" from a WWI Arditi motto " Chi Osa, Vince!"
found on many BlackShirt Daggers of the 20s and 30s. The " Blackshirts"
Fascist Party Militia, and in WWII, well organized Combat Units in N.Africa, were formed from the Arditi Returned Soldiers in 1919-1922 supporting Mussolini's rise to power.
The arditi were called the daring ones they definitely deserved that name
Eternal proud of being italian
Brave men like this deserve respect ✊🏽
My grandfather was in the Arditi in World War one. We have his medals. He served at Palmanova and Montefalcone. He was apparently also at Verdun according to family lore.
Does anyone know where I can conduct further research ? I would like to find his war file if I can and see how he came to be in the Arditi. He was living in the US in 1915 and joined the Italian army as a 19 year old. I'm not sure where his military district was. I only have his name.
I am Australian.
You need to ask to to the township of his italian's town.
Les soldats italiens ont toujours fait des miracles avec le peu qu'ils avaient ... vraiment courageux. Dommage que vous avez besoin d'étudier l'histoire et ne pas passer votre temps à écrire des bêtisesItalian soldiers have always worked miracles with what little they had ... true brave. Too bad to know that you have to study the history and do not spend their time writing nonsense.
Thank you jules
Thank you sir.
This was written in Romnel's diary...
Merci frere 🇮🇹🇫🇷
....merci monsieur.
Avanti Savoia!
Dat History lad eccome, avanti Savoia!
Ah hi there bf1 dud
Dat History lad just now revisiting the campaign learning about this shit
Gli arditi gridavano avanti a NOI, non Savoia
Ardine were saying Avanti Noi, not Avanti Savoia
Onore eterno agli Arditi d' Italia! Anime Immortali!
Thank you for reminding the "ARDITI"! my grandfather was a sergeant of the "ARDITI" and participated in the battle of the solstice and the battle of vittorio veneto. Honor to these iron men. I'm sorry that in Italy, because of a rabble of anti-patriots, they forgot "them". Their cry for the assault was "A NOI !! " .... the Victory.
Italia won WW1 in Vitorio Venetto Batle and gain nothing.. Hugely betrayed
There is an error, the Caimani del Piave was Arditi della Marina, they was enlisted from navy infantry not army.
Great video :)
Greetings from italy
I was there last year, beautiful country :)
History Uncovered ohoh, good
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen in my life! You'd deserve more my friend!❤️
this is nothing, have you googled spicy meat-ah ball>??
Just a correction: the original name was Reparti d'Assalto (Assault Troops). They were lated called Arditi (The Daring Ones) by Gabriele d'Annunzio after they were already been disbanded.
so battlefield 1 taught me that italians are badass during ww1
@john vento si però nella seconda ci siamo andati totalmente impreparati
This is awesome
Arditi was the first special force ever made in the modern history
Mmm, they're second then
@slovene ball they both were created around the same time
there is a very strong discussion about who comes up first the "Arditi" or the "Stormtroopers" i don't know much on the second but the concept of "Arditi" comes up during the italo-turkish war in 1911 but is ignored and comes up again in the 1916.
P.S.: sorry for the bad english
P.P.S.: the first paradrop is executed from a very small arditi unit(tenenti Alessandro Tandura , Pier Arrigo Barnaba e Ferruccio Nicoloso) during the battle of vittorio veneto, their task is observe the austo-hungarian movement
Many thanks for this wonderful Video :)))
I Volontari Arditi:
fiamme nere dalla fanteria, fiammo rosse dai bersaglieri,
fiamme verdi alpini
Respect aux Arditis
I heard arditi. Ment with out fear!
My grandfather's father was a sergent of the Bersaglieri! O la vittoria o tutti accoppatti!
Great work and awesome piece of information! Where did you get the video footage from? Like those firing cannons at 1:30?
good vid
Them brave men, running into ten he’s full of enemy’s with only a dagger, wow
You need to know something, The Arditi unity was volunteer at first only, on the last months was a mix between volunteer and ppl selected from other batallons. And I know cos my great grand father was one of them.
Never bring a gun to a Italian knife fight
Tough, fearsome & highly motivated bastards, with nerves of steel, vigorous dash & superb hand to hand combat skills! Some of the best! Mix that elite Italian bunch in with several battalions of savage Gurkhas from Nepal, including hardened units comprised of ferocious Scots Highlanders, reliable Canadians, wild Australians, fierce Irish troops, uber proficient US Marines & courageous Serbian soldiers, all thoroughly trained by the Arditti, then you'd have the greatest fighting force on Earth & the deadliest shock troopers all fighting alongside each other against a common enemy. Even the Kaiser's toughest & most formidably capable fighting men would have been overwhelmed & outclassed!
Fascinant
My family comes from Italy (american born) and my last name is Ardito. I wonder if that has anything to do with these fascinating group if soldiers
ardito in italian means bold/daring/hardy. maybe just an adjective
Probably not since I'm assuming your family would have arrived in America before WW1. In any case whichever one of your ancestors earned that surname must have been a real hard-nut.
20 dislike= 20 austrian
Arditi d'Italia orgoglio e vanto . Si va all'assalto si vince o si muor ❤
the bold ones were the first chosen department of military history, the hardest and strongest department chosen in history, the concept of chosen department was born in Italy, bold, 10th mas folgore rtc, the daring attacked the tanks with the knife and the hand grenades, the man against the car a courage never seen
Pretty brutal that dagger being designed for use on the enemies uniform, talk about having it in for some one
Everybody Gangsta till a fucking Rambo pushes you
I miei nonni..
Was interesting
Hi, may i ask you the source you found that talks about the knife treaties used by arditi?
Impressionnant
J'adore ça
guys im a italian para', we take ispiration by arditi
Just for historical contribution: there were something similar troops before Arditi, the Compagnie Della Morte ( Death's Companys ).
From that the High Rank decided to organize them better for most effective results.
Fantastique
Think of the wound a knife makes. Blade at least an inch wide, more than 6" long. A heavy rifle having to move a rifle is bulky. Up close, the barrel can be deflected., A soldier is inside of the gun barrel, the gun isn't much use except, striking and blocking. A big weapon, where Arditi have much easier maneuverable knives, stabbing and slicing. Then being well skilled with maneuvering, blocking, parrying, that's more than someone drafted in, taught to shoot and a few basics.
What is the image shown at 1:36? Nice bideo too.
+avrsed Austro-Hungarian line being hit with artillery.
ils sont des héros
These men would be extremely sought after for there skills. I was watching a video of the" Lajolo Knife System". method and was wondering if his family background was associated with the "Arditi".
When the rich fight, the poor die.
Nice video, though I do not believe te use of the Resolza Sardinian knife. This has normally no fixed blade and no lock to fix the clasp knife blade. Also the design is a better cutter than stabbing knife. I saw very few examples of fixed blade Sardinean knifes, but I still would not say that they are optimized combat knifes to penetrate thick cloths.
Onore. Forever.
The Arditi were Sardinians of "151° reggiment of Sassari" and my great gandfather was one of them, but during an assault in the Isonzo River he died PS: the Sardinian knife is called Lesorja or Lesorza, Leppa and is normaly use for kill animals in the country side or for cut and eat meat, chees etc...etc...
Arditi were from every part of Italy, not only Sardinians
Sassari brigade "dimonios" (demons) are sardinian soldiers that fought during the war, Arditi are voluntiers picked from Alpiniand Bersaglieri. Two different things.
@@morelld.3737 You are right
C'erano arditi della brigata sassari (forse i migliori) e c'erano arditi da altre parti dell'italia, ma dire che gli arditi erano solo sardi è scorretto
Certo, i sardi hanno anche inventato la bomba atomica e i gatti
Trop forts
Des héros
I just love american propaganda. Italians when fighting with the Allies are rightfully glorified for their bravery despite lack of a modern army . Italians fighting with the Axis are called incapable cowards. God bless them yanks :-)
We proved those yanks wrong in Africa
It is hard have a real idea of the USA out of propaganda, as any country in the position of cultural dominance, but:
- War of Independence was a minor sector of a major European conflict and the help of France was decisive to win.
- War of 1812 the same: if Great Britain wasn’t focused on fight with Napoleon in Europe the US nearly return a British Colony.
- War against Spain was fought with a nation in full decline and both Cuba and the Philippines was still successfully fighting alone for their independence, but the US take advantage to occupy the Philippines instead help to gain freedom and indirectly the same with Cuba not to talk about Puerto Rico.
- WWI fought in the end.
- President Wilson pretend to establish the League of Nations to prevent conflicts but the USA didn’t join...
- They retire from Russian civil war beaten by Red Army.
- In Nicaragua in the ‘30 Augusto Sandino kick out the marines.
- WWII start fighting in the middle and oversea with their territory untouched and protected by two oceans.
- Corea war was a draw on the battlefields and General Mac Arthur in a hard self delirium maybe exchange himself for Alexander the Great ask to start a nuclear war against China.
- Vietnam war was a military and political disaster: they also use chemical weapons and killed and abused thousands of Vietnamese civilians despite in movies seems they had exotic love stories...
- Grenada (yes Grenada...) was a full victory
- Panama (yes Panama....) too
- War in the gulf Americans formed a coalition of half of the world against one single nation.
- Invasion of Somalia , Irak and Afghanistan the same with poor results.
- The bombing of Yugoslavia was made by entire NATO
- The USA de facto conquered Japan because the atomic bombs: a mass murder weapon. Interesting about Japan is the US first contact was by the uninvited US Navy ask with guns to open the bay of Tokyo with the force and less then a century after they nuked twice Japan
- They was “brave” only against peaceful native Americans armed with neolitic weapons and Mexico who was always destabilized from the interior to grab how much territory as possible.
Despite this the american propaganda machine have brainwashed his people and not only but really we don’t know the real power, skills and bravery of american soldiers because their propaganda exploited the victories and put in oblivion the losses.
On contrary make exactly the opposite about their enemies and sometimes sadly their allied too to make their show.
It is obvious the USA is a superpower but not as the Americans pretend to depict.
@@helenmartinis5912
It is Hollywood that make a lot of uses of the brain atomic bomb brainwashing propaganda.
A Alb you mad bro?
They were completely incompetent. They had the worst commander of any country in WW1 and couldn't defeat an enemy in the Austro-Hungarians that was primarily fighting in the Balkans and against Russia, had no supplies, was massively outnumbered and had no national strategy or unity whatsoever. Italy is the least effective western military in the modern era.
ça devait être quelque chose la charge des Arditis
The sardinian "Sassari" brigade was composed of fiery soldiers nicknamed "dimonios" that were the austrian's nightmare.
Once a fight took place between the Italian continental soldiers and the Sardinians, tired of the mistreatment of the first who treated them as inferior , and the Sardinians gave them a lesson. After coming to know what happended, a general claimed: "If it is true, as it is true, that a group of Sardinians manages to defeat a full regiment, then if we can form a brigade of only Sardinians we could win any war" ».
The Arditi were the inspiration for Mussolini's Blackshirts, even copying their uniform.
Mussolini's (early) Blackshirts were for the most part former Arditi
@@TheMteaIzLuv Yes, in the very early days, anyway. D'Annunzio had lauded the Arditi in the Fiume Enterprise and returning Arditi joined up with the fascists bringing with them a lot of the tricks they'd learned from D'Annunzio, the roman salute and the eia eia eia chant etc. Not all Arditi supported the Fascists however, there were left wing ones too like the Arditi del Popolo
I'd say that's pretty hardcore.
The best Italian soldiers came from Friuli in northeastern Italy and the island of Sardinia.
Id volunteer
Do German storm troopers of ww1
A physically fit human with a blade is more efficient than a fat man with a rifle.
italian army had bravest average soldiers but their commanding officers were worth shit
Be a weapon behind a weapon.
🇮🇹 🇮🇹 ❤❤👍👍
Avanti Savoia!!!!
Vorrei so specificare che il pugnale che vate messo é un pattada tipico coltello da lavoro sardo, non é il pugnale degli arditi
Avanti Savoiaaaaaa!!!
Arditi=Navy Seal
A Noi!!!
So, the Italian Army's " Arditi"( " The Daring Ones") were the elite equivalent of the German Army's " StossTruppen"( " Storm Troopers") ?
A knife is a silent weapon.
Now that I've noticed it, who is the one that disliked the video?
Can't please everyone ;)
Axel 0_0
One Austro-Hungarian officer!
History Uncovered- Like your vids, but you're seriously preventing yourself from getting major views by your narration style; monotone and bored sounding is not going to get subscribers. If you don't sound interested, why should we be? Again, I enjoy your content, but your presentation needs work. Then you'll be a hit.
Narrating isn't easy.. especially when you have to say and pronounce every word perfectly. One mistake and you have to do it all over again. I'm definitely not bored narrating..I'm making sure everything sounds correct. I kind of sound monotone normally.. Oh well...I'll keep trying.
History Uncovered- Believe me, it's very clear that you're reading your script, that's why it sounds unnatural and a bit too grim (even despite the subject matter), making it tough to digest quite interesting information. You're very easy to understand so less focus on pronunciation, and try to visualise that you're telling this to a person sitting in front of you, that will really let out the passion, get the viewer engaged. I'm not saying that narration is easy nor am I just railing on you, I don't want you feeling defensive, I think that your channel could be a real hit, making your latest video the standard in views and not a fluke, and these few tweaks might be what you need to really break out.
Arditi to Ghurka,..............."Let's compare notes".
quando sei al caldo davanti al PC con lo stomaco pieno e un buon bicchiere di birra vicino e magari una pipa e la donna nella stanza accanto è una cosa ... ma se sei ferito e sofferente (tipo un osso rotto o un dolore tipo colica o dente cariato o un crampo muscolare interminabile o come una scossa nervosa continua i un bruciore agli occhi tipo taglio cipolla ma amplificato...) senza un aiuto a portata di mano, solo, e sete e fame da aver crampi allo stomaco in una trincea nel fango, sporco al freddo con pioggia battente e puzza di formaggio rancido o uova marcio o mer*da e la paura di essere scoperto ...la poesia della guerra e del morire in povertà ti passa...o quantomeno ci pensi. Cit di un amico ex legione Straniera... when you are warm in front of the PC with a full stomach and a good glass of beer nearby and maybe a pipe and the woman in the next room is one thing ... but if you are injured and in pain (like a broken bone or a pain like colic o carious tooth o an interminable muscle cramp o like a continuous nervous jolt i a burning in the eyes like onion cut but amplified ...) without help at hand, alone, and thirst and hunger from having stomach cramps in a trench in the mud, dirty in the cold with pouring rain and the smell of rancid cheese or rotten eggs or shit and the fear of being discovered ... the poetry of war and dying in poverty passes you ... or at least you think about it. Quote from a former Foreign Legion friend ...
La poesia della guerra esiste solo nella testa di chi la considera uno spettacolo da guardare da lontano. Mio nonno era negli arditi e non sono mai riuscito a fargli dire una sola parola su questa parte della sua vita. Ho imparato presto a non chiedergli nulla sull’argomento, non rispondeva ma la faccia che faceva era più che eloquente.
C'était des gladiateurs
was it not more 15 century the manuscript .
I think thy used a different knife. The Sardinian knife you mentioned & pictured is not a dagger and has no locking mechanism witch would make it almost completely useless in battle. I know this because I have one hand made in Sardinia and it more akin to a peasants knife or shepherds knife.
@Kung Fu Warlock yes but this knife in the video has no locking mechanism and can’t be used in combat the only thing it’s good for is for a picnic or utility task but it wouldn’t be safe for combat it would most likely cut the persons fingers off who is using it !
So BF1 didn't lie
Looks just like maniac jugg on thumb nail.
Avanti Arditi ! Le fiamme nere son come il simbolo delle tue schiere .....Arditi song
Turns out the WH40k Kriegs Korps was actually Italian this whole time lol
Piave...near Pavia, capital of Lombardy?
Capital of Lombardy is Milan
No, the river Piave is in Veneto
Check also Sassari Brigade, assault troops composed only by Sardinians, called "the red devils" by the AustroHungarian
@@bepivisintainer2975 when you're too ignorant even for Google... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanized_Brigade_%22Sassari%22
@@jessewjames-ym1rc touche you are right here and I was wrong.. Still, nothing to do with the Arditi troops.
ajo nono!
@@stefcoder2873 XDXDXD
@@bepivisintainer2975 nobody said that
💪🔪🔪🗡🗡⚔onore e rispetto x loro ..Sempre!!!
You can’t carry a knife between your teeth in war. It will break your teeth. Been there... done that.
*Meanwhile In Battlefield 1*
"Rush B!!!"
So they were specially trained to commit suicide
600 arditi armed only with dagger and bombs conquered a whole hill presidiated by 2000 austrian soldiers without losing a single men.
Aren t they all in part ? Samurai marines etc etc?
Something like that, you need to know that not all of them were specially trained, since the war times doesnt give you chance of that all the time. So on the last months the Arditi had trained ppl and soldiers too between their lines because on each assault they lost heavy % of ppl
No, they were only really brave