The First Italian War of Independence, part of the Risorgimento or unification of Italy, was fought by the Kingdom of Sardinia and Italian volunteers against the Austrian Empire and other conservative
arrival of King Carlo Alberto at the Battle of Novara
Defenders of Venice during the siege in 1849, as painted by Vittorio Emanuele Bressanin (detail)
Daniele Manin carried in triumph following the liberation of Venice on 17 March 1848 (detail from a painting by Napoleone Nani, 1876)
General Josef Radetzky, commander of the Austrian army in Lombardy–Venetia, portrait by Georg Decker (1818–1894)
The Second Italian War of Independence was fought by the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859 and played a crucial part in the process of Italian Unific
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The Piedmontese army crosses over a pontoon bridge in Casale to head towards Vercelli
Sardinian troops at Palestro
French Imperial Guard at Magenta
Battle of Montebello