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Liberal Nationalism, Abraham Lincoln, and the Unification of Italy
On June 24, 1859, a combined French and Italian (Sardinian) army defeated the Austrian Emperor at the Battle of Solferino in present-day Lombardy, Italy. The battle effectively ended the Second Italian War of Independence—sometimes called the Austro- …