Europe 1859: Franco-Sardinian Alliance
5 February 1859
5 Feb 1859
Italian Unification
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Franco-Sardinian Alliance
By the late 1850s the cause ofItalian unification was drawing widespread support from intellectuals and radicals across Europe. Afternarrowly surviving an assassination attempt by one such group,Napoleon III of France decided he wouldsecretly back the Kingdom of Sardinia in an attempt to unite northern Italy in return forterritorial concessions.
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