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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:
Filmstro
🚩 Citations:
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:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Prussia_(1803-1892).svg
Arrival of Gen. Tyler with the Connecticut troops …
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:233007/
Giuseppe Garibaldi
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:234753/
Wounded soldiers returning to Paris from Italy
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:248279/
Prinz Alexander von Hessen
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:237922/
Surrender of Napoleon III
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:240852/
Ouverture du parlement sarde a Turin, 2 avril
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:214400/
Solferino, November, 1859
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:214649/
Siege of Sevastopol from the new 32 pounder battery above the left attack Piquet
House
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232910/
Guerre de l’Indépendance Italienne. Bataille de Montebello
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:238807/
Franz Joseph I. Kaiser von Oesterreich
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:237908/
🚩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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