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The Army of the Two Sicilies, also known as the Royal Army of His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Reale Esercito di Sua Maestà il Re del Regno delle Due Sicilie), the Bourbon Army (Esercito Borbonico) or the Neapolitan Army (Esercito Napoletano), was the land forces of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, whose armed forces ...
"Inno al Re" (English: "Hymn to the King"), disputed between Giovanni Paisiello and Pietro Pisani, [1] was a hymn praising King Ferdinand IV of Naples, then Ferdinand I of Two Sicilies, which functioned as the national anthem of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The king of the Two Sicilies was overthrown by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, after which the people voted in a plebiscite to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. The annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies completed the first phase of Italian unification, and the new Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861.
In 1848–49, another Sicilian revolution of independence occurred, which was put down by the new king, Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, who was nicknamed Re Bomba after his 5-day bombardment of Messina. The increased hostility of the peoples and the elites of Sicily towards Naples and the Bourbon dynasty created a very unstable equilibrium ...
The former kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were formally united following the 1815 Congress of Vienna to become the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Both geographic areas had previously formed the single Kingdom of Sicily created by the Normans in the 11th century, but split in two following the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1302. [3]
direct rule of King Ferdinand III 1806–1813; Lieutenant-General: Francis, Duke of Calabria 1813–1816; Lieutenant-General: Niccolò Filangieri, Prince of Cutò 1816; In 1816 the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily were merged into the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Metternich had no difficulty in persuading the king to allow an Austrian army to march into Naples "to restore order". [ 2 ] The Neapolitans, commanded by General Pepe, made no attempt to defend the difficult defiles of the Abruzzi , [ 2 ] and were defeated at Battle of Rieti (7 March 1821).
King of the Two Sicilies (Rè delle Due Sicilie) Francis I (Francesco I) 4 January 1825 8 November 1830 • Son of Ferdinand I King of the Two Sicilies (Rè delle Due Sicilie) Ferdinand II (Ferdinando II) 8 November 1830 22 May 1859 • Son of Francis I King of the Two Sicilies (Rè delle Due Sicilie) Francis II (Francesco II) 22 May 1859 20 ...