The Milanese welcoming the French and Sardinians after they had ousted the Austrians during The Second Italian War of Independence, aka the Franco-Austrian War, the Austro-Sardinian War or Italian War of 1859, fought by the Second French Empire and the Savoyard Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859. From L'Univers Illustre, published Paris, 1859.

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