Article: Victor Emmanuel I

Article: Victor Emmanuel II
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... Emmanuel II Victor Emmanuel II (1820 ... was king of Sardinia from 1849 ... Throne of Sardinia During the ... Austria, Victor Emmanuel fought courageously ... France with Sardinia, albeit at a high price. Victor Emmanuel agreed to ...

Article: Charles Albert, King of Sardinia
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      631 words ... ... Charles Albert, King of Sardinia Charles Albert (1798-1849) was king of Sardinia (Piedmont) from 1831 ... entire court took refuge in Sardinia, where Charles Albert ... in favor of his brother Victor Emmanuel I. On Napoleon's defeat ...

Article: kingdom of Sardinia
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      399 words ... ... in 1720, when the island of Sardinia was awarded (by the Treaty ... Sicily to Austria. Besides Sardinia, the kingdom included Savoy ... 1861) of the Two Sicilies, Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed king of Italy ...

Dictionary definition: Sardinia
The Oxford American College Dictionary;      240 words ... ... with Savoy and Piedmont to form the kingdom of Sardinia; the kingdom formed the nucleus of the Risorgimento, becoming part of a unified Italy under Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia in 1861. Italian name Sardegna .

Article: The War Against Germany and Italy: Section II Sicily, Corsica, ...
U.S. History;      511 words ... ... 1988 Section II Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia The decision to assault Sicily was made ... offered stiff resistance. On 25 July King Victor Emmanuel III had announced the resignation of ... withdrawal of the German forces from Sardinia, the island fell into Allied hands ...

Article: Piedmont in the 1850s: Mark Rathbone asks why the Kingdom of ...
History Review;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... later, was his son and successor, Victor Emmanuel II, able to launch a further war ... was succeeded as King of Piedmont by Victor Emmanuel II, the Statuto and the constitutional ... writing and activity. Moreover, Victor Emmanuel was more liberal in outlook than Charles ...

Article: Victor Emmanuel III
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Victor Emmanuel III Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946. He contributed to the liquidation of the Italian monarchy. Victor Emmanuel was born on Nov. 11, 1869, in Naples. After his father ...