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    Charles Albert (Italian: Carlo Alberto I; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849) was the King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard state from 27 April 1831 until...
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    First Italian War of Independence (category 1848 in the Kingdom of Sardinia)
    Italian Unification (Risorgimento), was fought by the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) and Italian volunteers against the Austrian Empire and other conservative...
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    with a plebiscite that brought Naples and Sicily into the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the last territorial conquest before the proclamation of the Kingdom...
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    Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (category Queens consort of Sardinia)
    Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont whom she married in 1724. The mother of the future Victor Amadeus III, she was Queen of Sardinia from 1730 until her death...
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    Prince Ferdinand, 1st Duke of Genoa, second son of King Charles Albert of Sardinia and Maria Theresa of Austria and Tuscany. Their marriage was a dynastic...
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    the murdered princesse de Lamballe and grandfather of King Charles Albert of Sardinia. Born in Turin to Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano and his wife Landgravine...
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  • the Battle of Novara, King Charles Albert of Sardinia abdicated in favor of his son Victor Emmanuel II, and Piedmont signed a peace treaty with the Austrian...
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    Congress of Vienna. Tuscany was occupied by soldiers of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia for the duration of the conflict. The Armistice of Villafranca, agreed...
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    on 2022-10-01. Retrieved 2021-05-15. "Victor Amadeus II | king of Sardinia-Piedmont". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2021-05-03...
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    expand it into a kingdom. Charles was born in the Castle of Rivoli in Piedmont, the only child of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy and Margaret of France...
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    the Basilica of Superga. Prince Charles Albert of Savoy (1798–1849), Prince of Carignano, and King of Sardinia, married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria...
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    Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (category Princes of Piedmont)
    Vittorio Emanuele was born 12 February 1937 in Naples to Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, who would later become the last King of Italy as Umberto II, and Princess...
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    with Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg. He had, in the interval between the two wars, been employed as a military commissioner in Piedmont, and at...
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    Napoleon Bonaparte. Together with a 17,000-man army from the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, Beaulieu's task was to defend the crest of the Ligurian Alps and...
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  • time. July Count Camillo Benso di Cavour resigns, as president of Piedmont-Sardinia. Pike's Peak Gold Rush begins in the Colorado Territory. July 1 –...
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  • often also styled "Duke of Troppau". In the same year 1729, the King of Sardinia Victor Amadeus II granted him the title of knight of the Supreme Order...
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    Battle of Mortara (category Battles in Piedmont)
    between 19,000 Austrian and 26,000 Italian forces on 21 March 1849. King Karl Albert refused to accept the defeat of the previous year against Field Marshal...
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    throne. Maria Amalia was proposed as a bride for Victor Amadeus, Prince of Piedmont, heir to the Kingdom of Sicily and the Duchy of Savoy in the hope that...
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    national governments began declaring power and unity. Charles Albert of Sardinia, King of Piedmont-Savoy, initiated a nationalist war on March 23 in the Austrian...
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    III did all that he could to support the cause of Piedmont-Sardinia. The King of Piedmont-Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II, was invited to Paris in November...
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    were nominally suzerains, as princes of the blood royal in the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Savoy-Carignanos were in attendance at the royal court of the Savoys...
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    insurrection, which would spread from Chambéry (then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia), Alessandria, Turin, and Genoa. However, the Savoy government discovered...
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    treaty also confirmed Philip's control over Milan, Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia. Therefore, all of southern Italy was under Spanish rule as part of the...
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    Bohemia, the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, the Tyrol, the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the Papal States, Modena and Tuscany. In 1843, he gained the rank...
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  • Georgia Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg Eberhard Karl University...
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    identical letters on October 9, Suvorov reported to the kings of Naples and Sardinia, the French attacked Rosenberg at the same time "as the same [meaning:...
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    Giuseppe Garibaldi (category People from the Kingdom of Sardinia)
    leaders of the Action Party. Garibaldi offered his services to Charles Albert of Sardinia, who displayed some liberal inclinations, but he treated Garibaldi...
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  • 1912, 1923 (id=5607) Edoardo Perroncito March 10, 1847 Viale, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia November 4, 1936 Pavia, Kingdom of Italy 1912, 1913, 1914, 1923...
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    victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont. Geopolitical causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman...
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    Second Italian War of Independence against the combined forces of Piedmont-Sardinia and its ally France. Though Metternich was able to secure the replacement...
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