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Unification of Italy: The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
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Unification of Italy
1848–1870 consolidation of Italian states into a single state
The unification of Italy, also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 ended in the annexation of various states of the Italian peninsula and its outlying isles to the Kingdom of Sardinia, resulting in the creation of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Expedition of the Thousand
Event part of the Italian unification, 1860
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian patriot and general (1807–1882)
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso di Cavour,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Victor Emmanuel II
King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878)
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