biography
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| lived:
| (1820–78)
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| biography:
| First king of Italy (1861–78), born in Turin, NW Italy. As king of Sardinia from 1849, he appointed Cavour as his chief minister (1852). He fought against Austria (1859), winning victories at Montebello, Magenta, and Solferino, and gaining Lombardy. In 1860 Modena, Parma, the Romagna, and Tuscany were peacefully annexed, Sicily and Naples were added by Garibaldi, and Savoy and Nice were ceded to France. Proclaimed King of Italy at Turin, he fought on the side of Prussia in the Austro–Prussian War (1866), and after the fall of the French empire (1870) he entered and annexed Rome. |
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