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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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    Emanuele; 24 July 1759 – 10 January 1824) was the Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 4 June 1802 until his reign ended...
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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 (1720–1861) (Piedmont) and Italian volunteers against the Austrian Empire and other...
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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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    of Italy" does indeed only refer to Piedmont and Aosta. Excluding the 500,000 inhabitants of the island of Sardinia, which was not part of the Empire....
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    also confirmed Philip's direct control over Milan, Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia. Therefore, all of southern Italy was under direct Spanish rule. Sicily...
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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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    Vasto, the Emperor went to Sardinia, where he was joined by ships from Portugal, Malta, and the Papal States. From Sardinia, the Catholic coalition led...
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    (Risorgimento). He was born at Savigliano, near Cuneo, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He was the son of a general officer in the Sardinian (Piedmontese) army...
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    German Army during World War II that served in North Africa as well as Sardinia and Italy. The division played a major role in most of the actions against...
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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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