. Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919. nca thatthose rulers should be restored. In this they were sup-ported diplomatically by the English Government. Thiswas Englands great service to the Italians. Thepeople of the duchies have as much right to change theirsovereigns, said Lord Palmerston, as the Englishpeople, or the French, or the Belgian, or the annexation of the duchies to Piedmont will be anunfathomable good to Italy. The people of these statesvoted almost unanimously in favor of annexation (March11-12, i860). Victor Emmanuel, King of Piedmont,accepted the sovereignty thus offer
. Fifty years of Europe, 1870-1919. nca thatthose rulers should be restored. In this they were sup-ported diplomatically by the English Government. Thiswas Englands great service to the Italians. Thepeople of the duchies have as much right to change theirsovereigns, said Lord Palmerston, as the Englishpeople, or the French, or the Belgian, or the annexation of the duchies to Piedmont will be anunfathomable good to Italy. The people of these statesvoted almost unanimously in favor of annexation (March11-12, i860). Victor Emmanuel, King of Piedmont,accepted the sovereignty thus offered him, and on April2, i860, the first parliament of the enlarged kingdommet in Turin. A small state of less than 5,000,000 hadgrown to one of 11,000,000 within a year. This wasthe most important change in the political system ofEurope since 1815. Napoleon III acquiesced in all this, taking for himselfSavoy and Nice in return for services rendered. ThePeace of Villafranca was never enforced. 8 cC,otk^ ^m/riimicj-iue iifimfi 46. MAP TO ILLUSTRATETHE UNIFICATION OF Seeds of English Miles a so Aff 60 so 100 REFERENCE ITt I^!•--^ Zuridi, Mr. lOf 1859. 0, I -IT I jfm/xaiim leSariimm voled ii/^-^^^ miiiscites, Mar. Hill, MO. -\AnmKitwn t4/StmUjiia, yakdiy?^ , 1360. ^piMscites, Oct. 2/f, tsed LJi-l VdeilD-PUhiscUcs, M. , me. Ittt I dnrUixali^DtO KhndxinidfItaly,LiU VoteilhyPkl)iseUi>. p^Tl Ceded to France, March, Ceded to lYana!, ?March, 1/S6P.
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