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Born March 14, 1820 • Turin • Italy • (Birthday tomorrow)
Died January 9, 1878 (aged 57) • Rome • Italy
Title / Office king (1861-1878), Italy • king (1849-1861), Sardinia
House / Dynasty House of Savoy
Role In Austro-French Piedmontese War • Battle of Magenta • Battle of Solferino • Risorgimento • Second Battle of Custoza • Wars of Italian Independence • battles of Custoza

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La Marmora, detail of a lithograph by Masutti
Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora
Italian general and statesman
Manfredo Fanti
Italian general
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian revolutionary
Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
Camillo Benso, count di Cavour
Piedmontese statesman
Charles Albert of Sardinia-Piedmont
Charles Albert
king of Sardinia-Piedmont
Luigi Carlo Farini
Italian physician, historian, and statesman
Nicola Fabrizi
Italian revolutionary
Cesare, Count Balbo
prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont
Massimo Taparelli, marquis d’Azeglio
Italian author and statesman
Guglielmo Pepe
Italian soldier
Giovanni Lanza
Italian statesman
Urbano Rattazzi
Italian lawyer and statesman
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Emilio Bandiera
Italian revolutionary
Attilio Bandiera
Italian revolutionary
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian revolutionary
Francesco Crispi
Italian statesman
Pietro Badoglio.
Pietro Badoglio
Italian general and statesman
Giuseppe La Farina
Italian revolutionary, writer, and historian
Luigi Pelloux
prime minister of Italy

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