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Mazzini helps set up a revolutionary republic in Rome, but French forces stop it.
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Victor Emmanuel makes Count Camillo Cavour his prime minister. And once Cavour got into office he wanted improve Sardinia's economy.
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Sardinia joins forces with the British and the French against Russia in the Crimean War.
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Cavour negotiated a secret deal with Napoleon. And Napoleon promissed to aid Sardinia if it faced war with Austria.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, an ally of Mazzini, gathers a force of 1000 volunteers to Sicily.
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Victor Emmanuel is Crowned King of Italy after being given Naples and Sicily from Garbaldi.
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Cavour dies and Italy forms an alliance with Prussia.
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France is forced to withdraw from Rome during the Franco-Prussian War. And this is the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire that Italy is united and unified.
