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
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
Unification of Italy
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The unification of Italy, also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 ended in the annexation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its out
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 Unification. A year prior to the war, in the Plombières Agreement, France agreed to support Sardinia's efforts to expel Austria from Italy in return for territorial…
Five Days of Milan, 18–22 March 1848
Giuseppe Mazzini, a highly influential leader of the Italian revolutionary movement
The first meeting between Garibaldi and Mazzini at the headquarters of Young Italy in 1833
Guglielmo Pepe