Francis Joseph and the Italians, 1849-1859The victors who met in Vienna in 1814-15 proposed to contain forever, if possible, the expansionist tendencies of France and to limit the ideology and reformism which French armies and Bonaparte had carried to much of the continent of Europe. Thanks to Metternich's prestige and to the Austrian domination of Lombardy and Tuscany before 1789, the Habsburgs were to be the chief sentinels in Italy against a Gallic resurgence. No one really expected the house of Savoy, rewarded with Genoa for its years of exile, to be capable of more than a token resistance. -- pg. [1]. |
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The Austrian Presence in Italy 18151848 | 1 |
Schwarzenberg and Azeglio 18491852 | 26 |
Austria Parma and Modena 18491856 | 71 |
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