ITALIAN UNIFICATION "Qui si fa l'Italia o si muore " ("Here we make Italy -- or die!" Guiseppe Garibaldi, at the battle of Calatafimi, in Sicily, 15th May 1860) The Risorgimento is the process by which the modern country of Italy was forged from a collection of individual Italian States linked only by geography. It started with the ending of Napoleon's reign and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and ended with the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71. Throughout …showed first 75 words of 3900 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3900 total…Marche and Umbria vote for annexation to Piedmonte. 1861 Sicily and Naples vote to join Kingdom of Italy; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed. 1866 Italy joins Prussia in War against Austria; gains Venetia; 1870 Italian troops occupy Rome when French abandon city; 1871 (july)Rome made Capitol of Kingdom Reference *<Tab/>Diplomacy Henry Kissinger-New York 1994 *<Tab/>Europe Since Napeleon David Thomson *<Tab/>The Age of Revolution Eric Hobsbawn