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The Battle of Solferino (referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino) on 24 June 1859 resulted in the victory of the allied French army under Napoleon III and the Piedmont-Sardinian army under Victor Emmanuel II (together known as the Franco-Sardinian alliance) against the Austrian army under Emperor Franz Joseph I.
The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Sardinian War, the Austro-Sardinian War, the Franco-Austrian War, or the Italian War of 1859 (Italian: Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana; German: Sardinischer Krieg; French: Campagne d'Italie), [3] was fought by the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859 and played a crucial part in the ...
The following is a complete list of units and commanders who fought in the battle of Solferino on June 24, 1859. French Army. Emperor Napoleon III
The following is a complete list of units and commanders who fought in the battle of Solferino on June 24, 1859. French Army. Emperor Napoleon III
Battle of Montebello (1859) P. Battle of Palestro; S. Battle of San Fermo; Siege of Ancona (1860) Battle of Solferino; T. Battle of Turbigo; V. Battle of Varese
Henry Dunant at Solferino. Dunant arrived in Solferino on the evening of 24 June 1859, on the same day a battle between the two sides had occurred nearby. Forty thousand wounded, dying and dead remained on the battlefield, and there appeared to be little attempt to provide care.
The Tower of San Martino della Battaglia is a monumental building erected in 1878, to commemorate the Battle of San Martino, a portion of the Battle of Solferino in 1859, located near San Martino, province of Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
Later, in 1859, they commissioned him to produce a series of lithographs depicting the Second Italian War of Independence which were published as "The War in Italy". [4] After seeing them, young Prince Oddone, Duke of Montferrat gave him a commission to follow the Piedmontese Army and make a record of its campaigns. The result was an album of ...