Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . (where his house is preserved as a memorial).At the head of his legion of volunteers, clad in their gay red blouses,he was a most picturesque figure, and his rapid success in the south lentan element of romance to the unification of Italy succeed in forming a national kingdom so strong as to need noFrench protector. By leaving Venetia in possession of Austria,and agreeing that Piedmont should only be increased by theincorporation of Lombardy and the littie
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . (where his house is preserved as a memorial).At the head of his legion of volunteers, clad in their gay red blouses,he was a most picturesque figure, and his rapid success in the south lentan element of romance to the unification of Italy succeed in forming a national kingdom so strong as to need noFrench protector. By leaving Venetia in possession of Austria,and agreeing that Piedmont should only be increased by theincorporation of Lombardy and the littie duchies of Parmaand Modena, Napoleon III hoped to prevent the consolidationof Italy from proceeding too far. The Unification of Italy and Germany 611 He had, however, precipitated changes which he was power- The forma-less to check. Italy was now ready to fuse into a single state, kingdom ofTuscany, as well as Modena and Parma, voted (March, i860) -^y ^^°to unite with Piedmont. Garibaldi, a famous republican leader,sailed for Sicily, where he assumed the dictatorship of the islandin the name of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy. After. Map of Unification of Italy expelling the troops of the king of Naples from Sicily, hecrossed to the mainland, and early in September he enteredNaples itself, just as the king fled from his capital. Garibaldi now proposed to march on Rome and proclaim Napoleon 111the kingdom of Italy. This would have imperiled all the previ- jJl-e^venthe °ous gains, for Napoleon III could not, in view of the strong anig^tatonCatholic sentiment in France, possibly permit the occupation of the kingdomRome and the destruction of the political independence of the 6l2 Medieval and Modem Times Italian unifi-cation onlypartial pope. He agreed that Victor Emmanuel might annex the out-lying papal possessions to the north and reestablish a stablegovernment in Naples instead of Garibaldis dictatorship. ButRome, the imperial city, with the territory immediately sur-rounding
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