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Topic: Italian War of Independence, First, or Italian Revolution of 1849-49 (Italian War of Independence of 1848-49)

Italian War of Independence, First, or Italian Revolution of 1849-49 (Italian War of Independence of 1848-49)

Years: 1848 - 1849

The Italian Independence wars ae part of the process of evolution of Italian Unification (Risorgimento).

These are three wars fought against the Austrian Empire between 1848 and 1866 which end with the conquest of the entire Italian peninsula.

Related minor conflicts and campaigns, such as the campaigns of the 1860's are usually treated as part of this cycle of conflict.The unification of Italy is completed by the conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies by Giuseppe Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand in 1860.The First Italian War of Independence is fought in 1848 between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire.

The war sees main battles at Custoza and Novara in which the Austrians under Radetzky manage to defeat the Piedmontese.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)