Military

===The first revolution on the Italian peninsula took place in the Kingdom of Sicily. King Charles Albert of Sardinia mobilized his army and marched to the assistance of Lombardy and joined in the war to drive the Austrians from Italian soil.===

===Austrians defeated the Piedmontese and Charles Albert had to abdicate. His son, Victor Emmanuel II, succeeded him in 1849. A new revolutionary leader, Giuseppe Garibaldi, could not avoid Rome's destruction by the French in 1849. Only Sardinia held firm to their constitutional government===

===Under Cavour's leadership, Sardinia, Britain and France became allies and marched in what is known as the Crimean War (1854-56) against Russia.On July 1858 Cavour met Napoleon III at Plombières where the two plotted a war against Austria and the reorganization of the Italian peninsula. Austrians were defeated in the two major battles of Magenta and Solferino. The Austrians were forced to giveLombardy to Napoleon III.=== = = ===Finally, in 1859, Napoleon transferred Lombardy to the sovereignty of Victor Emmanuel II. During the elections in 1859 all the northern states (of the Italian peninsula) except for Venetia, which was still apart of the Austrian, Joined the Kingdom of Sardinia.===

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===Giuseppe Garibaldi organized a group of volunteers, which served under the Piedmontese ruler Charles Albert, king of Sardinia. In 1860 he conquered Sicily and set up a provisional government. After conqering Sicily he conquered Naples and delivered it to Victor Emmanuel II.===

===The Italian kingdom was missing Rome, which was still a papal possession, and Venice, which was controlled by the Austrians. After the Prussian defeated the Austians in __The Seven Week War__, Italy sided with Prussia.===

===In 1866 Venice was a reward from the defeat and was added to Italy kingdom. During the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III withdrew his troops from Rome. With the city of Rome unprotected Italian took it into there own hands to move in to Rome.=== .