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Original flag of the Army of the Two Sicilies Coat of Arms of the Army of the Two Sicilies. 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 ...
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.
"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.
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 ...
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the title of king of Two Sicilies was adopted by Ferdinand IV of Naples in 1816. [3] Under Ferdinand's rule, the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Sicily were unified. He had previously been king separately of both Naples and Sicily.
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 ...
King of the Two Sicilies; Reign: 12 December 1816 – 4 January 1825: Successor: Francis I: King of Naples; 1st reign: 6 October 1759 – 23 January 1799: 2nd reign: 13 June 1799 – 30 March 1806: 3rd reign: 22 May 1815 – 8 December 1816: Predecessor: Charles VII (1st Reign) Jacques MacDonald (Dictator (Parthenopean Republic); 2nd Reign ...
The decoration was a five-pointed red enameled gold star bearing the coat of arms of Naples and Sicily and the inscription Joseph Neapoles Siciliarum rex instituit.The original badge was surmounted by an eagle, but Ferdinand I modified it by replacing the eagle with the royal crown and changing the inscription to Ferdinandus Borbonius utriusque Siciliae Rex P.F.A..