Identifier: historyofmediv00davi (find matches)
Title: A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, so that it should not seem as if Austria wasattacked out of sheer wantonness. The Austrians themselvesfoolishly gave the justification. They launched an ultimatumrequiring Sardinia to disarm her forces. The answer was a defi-ance from both Sardinia and France. I am leaving the last sitting of the Piedmontese (Sardinian)Parliament, said Cavour gleefully, the night war was voted.He was right. The next Parliament would represent all Italy. 284. The making of the Italian Kingdom. In this war of1859 neither France nor Austria had great generals nor well-organized armies. The Sardinians were brave and tolerablywell handled; probably it was their courageous fighting thatturned the scale; but the campaign was conducted very unsci-entifically on both sides. On June 4, the allies won the battle 1 Thesewere small districts ivcsl of the Alps, belonging to Victor Emmanuel,but really more French than Italian in language and civilization. It was a heavysorrow for the king to give them up, however.
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CAVOUR Italian statesmanBorn 1810 Died 1861 HOW CAVOUR MADE ITALY 485 of Magenta, which gave them the control of Lombardy andpossession of Milan. The Austrians drew back and stood atbay to cover Venetia. At Solferino was a second great battle.There was bad generalship on both sides/ but the Frenchsomehow blundered into a second victory. All the worldexpected Napoleon to force his way now to Venice. To theamazement of everybody and to the especial distress ofCavour, he held instead a personal interview with EmperorFrancis Joseph (at Villafranca) and announced a preliminarypeace. Probably his nerves had been shaken by the slaughterat Solferino. Austria had still great fighting power, and verylikely also Napoleon had begun at length to realize that astrong native power in Italy would be an unwelcome rival toFrance. By the arrangement of Villafranca, Sardinia was to be givenLombardy, but Venetia was to remain in Austrian bondage.Napoleon had pledged an Italy free to the Adriatic. Herewas

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