Sa die de sa Sardigna
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Sardinia's Day, also known as the Sardinian People's Day, is a holiday in Sardinia commemorating the Sardinian Vespers, which occurred from 1794 to 1796.
G. Maria Angioy enters Sassari (1795)
Portrait of G. Maria Angioy
Commemorative plaque for G. M. Angioy in Sassari
Plaque commemorating the 'Palabanda conspiracy' in Cagliari
The French expedition to Sardinia was a short military campaign fought in 1793 in the Mediterranean Sea in the first year of the War of the First Coalition, during the French Revolutionary Wars. The o
Sa die de sa Sardigna
…developing in other European regions (namely Ireland, Poland, Belgium, Hungary, Tyrol) and the episodes leading to the French Revolution. In 1793, a French fleet tried to conquer the island along two lines of attack, the first one across the southern coast in Cagliari and the other in the nearby of the Maddalena archipelago. However, the…
Contemporary print of the French bombardment of Cagliari during the expedition
1832 portrait of Truguet as a ship-of-the-line captain in 1792
Drawning of the French attack