 Complete the following phrase:  Born in Turin as the eldest son of Charles Albert, Prince of Carigo, and Maria Theresa of Austria, he fought in the First Italian War of Independence 18481849 before being made King of Piedmont-Sardinia following his fathers abdication. He appointed Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, as his Prime Minister, and he consolidated his position by suppressing the republican left. In 1855, he sent an expeditionary corps to side with French and British forces during the Crimean War; the deployment of Italian troops to the Crimea, and the gallantry shown by them in the 