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Giuseppe Mazzini
Founded Young Italy, a secret society to create one independant nation; led revoluteion in Rome, crushed -
Count Camillio Cavour
Appointed prime minister by VIctor Emmanuel -
Count Camillio Cavour
Sardinia joined Britain and France in the Crimean War against Russia. -
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Recruited a force of 1000 red-shirted volunteers to win control of Sicily . -
Giuseppe Giribaldi
Alarmed Cavour, who thought he would set up his own republic in the South; turned over Sicily to Victor Emmanual and his Sardinian army. -
Victor Emmanuel II
Forced Giribaldi from Sicily with Cavour's guidance -
Victor Emmanuel II
Appointed King of Italy -
Franco-Prussian War
France was forced to withdraw troops, and Italy was unified for the first time since the Roman Empire.
