Description
Product ID: | 9781472819499 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | IN |
Series: | Men-at-Arms |
Title: | Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848–70 (1) |
Subtitle: | Piedmont and the Two Sicilies |
Authors: | Author: Gabriele Esposito, Giuseppe Rava |
Page Count: | 48 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Military history, Land forces and warfare, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Military history, Land forces & warfare, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Explains and illustrates the very varied Italian forces that fought in the wars to create an independent unified nation. In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was ''a geographical expression''--not a country, but a patchwork of states. The north (Savoy/Piedmont, and Venice ) was ruled by Austria-Hungary, and most of the minor central states were more or less clients of Austria. From Naples, a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy ruled the south--''the Two Sicilies.'' The European ''Year of Revolutions'', 1848, saw popular uprisings against the regimes all over the peninsula. These were eventually crushed (First War of Independence, 1848–49); but they left King Victor Emmanuel of Savoy/Piedmont--and his able minister Cavour--determined to liberate and unify the country, while royal authority in the Two Sicilies was left deeply unpopular. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-08-24 |