GARIBALDI, SICILY AND NAPLES

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GARIBALDI, SICILY AND NAPLES

• How did Piedmont succeed in annexing Sicily,
  Naples and the papal States by 1861?

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N.B.

• Formation of Northern Italian State under
  Piedmont (or in its likeness)
• Is that enough for Cavour?
• Whose ambition to go further?

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April 1860 revolt in Sicily organised by
Mazzini and supporters of the National society
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Stage 3
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ACTIONS OF GARIBALDI

• Collected together The Thousand
• Sets sail for Sicily in the name of Victor
  Emmanuel and Italy

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REACTION OF CAVOUR AND VICTOR EMMANUEL

• Cavour refused to help - fear of foreign
  intervention
• V.Egt support, but not openly

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GARIBALDIS MILITARY SUCCESS

• Defeated Neapolitan army
• Aided by Sicilian peasants

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GARIBALDIS ACTIONS IN SICILY

• Appointed himself dictator of Sicily
• Abolished tax on corn
• Promoted distribution of land
• Introduced Piedmontese laws

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GARIBALDIS DEFEAT OF NAPLES

• Landed troops and marched on Naples
• King fled and Garibaldi accepted surrender

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FEARS OF CAVOUR

• European intervention if Rome taken
• Republicanism of Garibaldis men

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CAVOURS ACTIONS

• March an army through Papal States to meet Gazza
• Plebiscites organised in Sicily, Naples, Umbria
  and the Papal Marches in favour of unification

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END RESULT

• Gazza hands over conquests to Victor Emmanuel II
• Constitution of Piedmont extended to Italy