Five Days of Milan
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The Five Days of Milan was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan w
The Five Days of Milan by Carlo Bossoli
Statuary at the base of the 1895 monument to the Five Days of Milan by Giuseppe Grandi.
A milanese barricade during the 'five days'
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
Five Days of Milan
…The Five Days of Milan (Italian: Cinque giornate di Milano ) was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the…
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)