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🚩 By 1859 the decades-long struggle to free Italy from being dominated by the mighty Austrian Empire seemed far from success. But a new secret alliance between two nations - the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and the Second French Empire - gave renewed hope to the effort.
These three powers are about to embark on a monumental campaign that will culminate in one of the bloodiest battles of its time. At stake is the fate of Italy.
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
🎵 Music:
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Imperial Coat of Arms of France by Katepanomegas via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
Flag of Italy (1861-1946) by F l a n k e r via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.5
Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia by David Liuzzo via Wikimedia Commons:
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Arrival of Gen. Tyler with the Connecticut troops ...
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Wounded soldiers returning to Paris from Italy
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Prinz Alexander von Hessen
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Surrender of Napoleon III
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Ouverture du parlement sarde a Turin, 2 avril
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Solferino, November, 1859
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Siege of Sevastopol from the new 32 pounder battery above the left attack Piquet
House
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Guerre de l'Indépendance Italienne. Bataille de Montebello
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Franz Joseph I. Kaiser von Oesterreich
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🚩Sources:
Solferino 1859 - The battle for Italy’s freedom, by Richard Brooks (Osprey Publishing)
Solferino The Birth of a Nation, by Patrick Turnbull
The Campaign of Magenta & Solferino 1859, by Harold Carmichael Wylly C. B.
The Shadow Emperor, by Alan Strauss-Schom
The Unification of Italy, by Charles River Editors
A Memory of Solferino, by Henry Dunant
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