Life of Victor Emmanuel II, First King of Italy, Volume 2Macmillan, 1879 |
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... troops , I used my influence to withdraw him from those provinces . Those people remained per- fectly free from any outside influence , contrary to the advice of the most powerful and generous friend Italy ever had . They asked with ...
... troops , I used my influence to withdraw him from those provinces . Those people remained per- fectly free from any outside influence , contrary to the advice of the most powerful and generous friend Italy ever had . They asked with ...
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... troops were impeded from re - establishing the legi- timate government in the insurgent provinces , for reasons well known to your majesty . These and other things I might tell you à propos . But that which above all imposes on me the ...
... troops were impeded from re - establishing the legi- timate government in the insurgent provinces , for reasons well known to your majesty . These and other things I might tell you à propos . But that which above all imposes on me the ...
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... unhappy island , unable longer to support the Bourbon rule , having risen in a formidable rebellion which the royal troops found it impossible to crush . CHAPTER XIX . THE REVOLUTION OF NAPLES . A.D. 1860 34 LIFE OF VICTOR EMMANUEL II .
... unhappy island , unable longer to support the Bourbon rule , having risen in a formidable rebellion which the royal troops found it impossible to crush . CHAPTER XIX . THE REVOLUTION OF NAPLES . A.D. 1860 34 LIFE OF VICTOR EMMANUEL II .
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... troops through the Roman territory on the line parallel to the Tronto . Mons . Bernardi will go this evening to tell Card . Antonelli . The Holy Father desires this agreement to remain strictly secret . DE MARTINO . Jan. 6 , 1860 . The ...
... troops through the Roman territory on the line parallel to the Tronto . Mons . Bernardi will go this evening to tell Card . Antonelli . The Holy Father desires this agreement to remain strictly secret . DE MARTINO . Jan. 6 , 1860 . The ...
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... troops were being concentrated in the Abruzzi , and that foreign volunteers , collected from all countries , were pouring into the Pontifical States . The intrigues we have mentioned were known to the King of Sardinia and his minister ...
... troops were being concentrated in the Abruzzi , and that foreign volunteers , collected from all countries , were pouring into the Pontifical States . The intrigues we have mentioned were known to the King of Sardinia and his minister ...
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