Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . o fight side byside with the Prussian forces, consented after their commonvictory over France to join the North German by the German princes, William, King of Prussiaand President of the North German Federation, was proclaimedGerman Emperor in the palace of Versailles, January, this way the German Empire came into existence. With itsvictorious army and its wily chancellor, Bismarck, it immediatelytook an important place among
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . o fight side byside with the Prussian forces, consented after their commonvictory over France to join the North German by the German princes, William, King of Prussiaand President of the North German Federation, was proclaimedGerman Emperor in the palace of Versailles, January, this way the German Empire came into existence. With itsvictorious army and its wily chancellor, Bismarck, it immediatelytook an important place among the western powers of Europeand sought to increase its power. Rome addedto the king-dom of Italy,1870 The Final Unification of Italy 127. The unification of Italy was completed, like that ofGermany, by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. After the warof 1866 Austria had ceded Venetia to Italy. Napoleon IIIhad, however, sent French troops in 1867 to prevent Garibaldifrom seizing Rome and the neighboring districts, which hadbeen held by the head of the Catholic Church for more thana thousand years. In August, 1870, the reverses of the war. The Unification of Italy and Germany 623 compelled Napoleon to recall the French garrison from Rome,and the pope made little effort to defend his capital againstthe Italian army, which occupied it in September. The peopleof Rome voted by an overwhelming majority to join the king-dom of Italy; and the work of Victor Emmanuel and Cavourwas completed by transferring the capital to the Eternal City. Although the papal possessions were declared a part of the Position ofkingdom of Italy, a law was passed which guaranteed to the * ^°^^pope the rank and privileges of a sovereign prince. He was tohave his own ambassadors and court like the other Europeanpowers. No officer of the Italian government was to enter theLateran or Vatican palaces upon any official mission. As headof the Church the pope was to be entirely independent of theking of Italy, and the
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