B3 How Italy Unify P/L/CD In 1859/60

Question 1

The Franco Austrian war 1859 (2nd war of independence) gave Piedmont the opportunity for what?

Answer 1

Getting rid of Austria control

Question 2

What happened at the Battle of Magenta, how many Austrians, guns, French/Sardinian?

Answer 2

14,000 Austrians supported by 40 guns attacked a combined French/Sardinian force of 10,700 men and 18 guns

Question 3

How did Napoleon react relating to the Battle of Magenta?

Answer 3

Ready to complete his northern thrust, left most men on the Sardinian river took 30,000 troops across the Ticino heading for the village of Magenta

Question 4

The Battle of Magenta wasn’t particularly large but…

Answer 4

… it was a decisive victory for the French-Sardinian forces by June.

Question 5

This was clearly a French victory, why?

Answer 5

Not a single Piedmontese life was lost

Question 6

The Battle of Solferino lasted how long saw the Austrians eventually drop back to what?

Answer 6

21st to 24th June

Quadrilateral

Question 7

How had it been a bloody contest at the Battle of Solferino?

Answer 7

Allies taking 17,000 casualties out of 137,000

Austrians gaining 21,000 out of 128,000

Question 8

One doctor per…

Answer 8

500 casualties

Question 9

Napoleon met Franz Joseph of Austria when?

Answer 9

11th July at Villafranca but Piedmont was excluded from the talks

Question 10

Cavour resigned when?

Answer 10

July 1859

Question 11

What did Austria give France?

Answer 11

Lombardy

Which might then choose to give to Piedmont

Question 12

Why wouldn’t France take Nice and Savoy?

Answer 12

As the terms of Plombieres were not fully filled

Question 13

When was the Treaty of Zurich?

Answer 13

November 1859

Question 14

What did the Treaty of Zurich do?

Answer 14

Formally ended the war and Napoleon argued that the issue of Central Europe should be decided by a Congress