THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
NAPOLEONIC WARS
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Question
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French assisted Cavour and won the Austrian-occupied land of northern Italy.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi assisted Cavour and won the Austrian-occupied land of northern Italy.
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Otto von Bismarck assisted Cavour and won the Austrian-occupied land of northern Italy.
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Louis-Napoleon assisted Cavour and won the Austrian-occupied land of northern Italy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Franco-Austrian War of 1859 was the agent that began the physical process of Italian unification. The Austrians were defeated by the French and Piedmontese at Magenta and Solferino, and thus relinquished Lombardy. By the end of the year Lombardy was added to the holdings of Piedmont-Sardinia.
Detailed explanation-2: -When France withdrew its troops from Rome, during the Franco Prussian war in 1870 CE, Victor Emmanuel II occupied and completed the unification of Italy.
Detailed explanation-3: -He made all European leaders agree to the Italian Unification at the Congress of Vienna.
Detailed explanation-4: -The formation of the modern Italian state began in 1861 with the unification of most of the peninsula under the House of Savoy (Piedmont-Sardinia) into the Kingdom of Italy. Italy incorporated Venetia and the former Papal States (including Rome) by 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).