Italy · House / House of Savoy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Piedmont revolt starts in Alessandria, where troops adopted the green, white and red tricolore of the Cisalpine Republic. The leader of the 1823 revolutionary movement in Piedmont is Santorre di Santarosa, who wanted to remove the Austrians and unify Italy under the House of Savoy. Di Santarosas troops are defeated, and the would-be Piedmontese revolutionary fled to Paris
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