Garibaldi was born and christened Joseph-Marie Garibaldi on 4 July 1807 in Nice, which had been directly annexed by Napoleonic France in 1805, to Giovanni Domenico Garibaldi and Maria Rosa Nicoletta Raimondo. In 1814, the Congress of Vienna returned Nice to Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia.
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Italian unification (Italian: Unificazione italiana), or the Risorgimento ([risordʒiˈmento], meaning the Resurgence or revival), was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.
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He is considered, with Camillo Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II and Giuseppe Mazzini, as one of Italy's fathers of the fatherland. Garibaldi was a central figure in the Italian Risorgimento, since he personally commanded and fought in many military campaigns that led eventually to the formation of a unified Italy.
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After the crushing Piedmontese defeat at Novara (23 March 1849), Garibaldi moved to Rome to support the Republic recently proclaimed in the Papal States, but a French force sent by Louis Napoleon (the future Napoleon III) threatened to topple it. At Mazzini's urging, Garibaldi took command of the defence of Rome.
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Mazzini, from exile, also applauded the early reforms of Pius IX. In 1847, Garibaldi offered the apostolic nuncio at Rio de Janeiro, Bedini, the service of his Italian Legion for the liberation of the peninsula.
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(ii) He united Italy under the leadership of Sardinia. Lombardy, Tuscany, Parma and Papal States also united with Sardinia. (iii) Finally in 1871, Rome was liberated from French control and Italy was united, with the King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II, becoming the King of Italy with Rome as the Capital.
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The 2nd War of Italian Independence began in April 1859 when the Sardinian Prime Minister, Camillo Benso, Conte de Cavour found an ally in Napoleon III. Napoleon III signed a secret alliance and Cavour provoked Austria with military maneuvers and eventually created the war in April 1859.
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The Contributions of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour in the Unification of Italy were as follows: Mazzini. (i) He was the founder of the Young Italy movement with the aim of ending Austrian rule over Italy and to make it a Republic. (ii) He wanted unification through a democratic revolution but his lofty ideals were not supported by the peasants and middle classes.
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After the Austrians went to war, Cavour called for volunteers to enlist in the Italian liberation. The Austrians mandated that the Sardinians stand down and after they didn't the Austrians declared war on 26 April.
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The process of unification of the Italian people in a national state was not completed in the nineteenth century. Many Italians remained outside the borders of the Kingdom of Italy and this situation created the Italian irredentism.
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who unified italy mazzini,garibaldi or cavour
Garibaldi unified Italy Mazzini, Garibaldi or Cavour. Garibaldi unified Italy.