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    started on 5 November 1860 and ended on 13 February 1861, and took place in Gaeta, in today's Southern Lazio (Italy). In September 1860, as the Garibaldine...
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    Gaeta (Italian: [ɡaˈeːta]; Latin: Cāiēta; Southern Laziale: Gaieta) is a city in the province of Latina, in Lazio, Italy. Set on a promontory stretching...
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  • Siege of Gaeta (18601861) – Italian Risorgimento Siege of Fort Sumter (1861) – Union soldiers in Fort Sumter surrendered after a few days of bombardment...
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    and Civitella del Tronto still held out. The Siege of Gaeta by the Piedmontese began on 6 November 1860. Both Francis II and his wife behaved with great...
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    and the remains of the Bourbon army held out in Gaeta. The siege of Gaeta was first started by Garibaldi, replaced on 4 November 1860 by the Sardinian...
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    Gaeta in late 1860 and early 1861, the forces of Victor Emmanuel II bombarded and eventually overcame the defenders. It was this brief "last stand of...
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    Expedition of the Thousand in 1860, the Siege of Gaeta of 18601861 and the proclamation of the unified Kingdom of Italy. The former kingdoms of Naples and...
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    of the room are the funerary monuments of several fallen soldiers during the siege of Gaeta in 1860-1861. On the right wall, there are two steles of similar...
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    last stand of that Kingdom after the Garibaldine and Piedmontese invasion of 1860, after the King Francis II had already surrendered in Gaeta, Naples and...
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  • Retrieved 15 November 2023. Neutrality violated by Holland during the Siege of Huy (1595) "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 25...
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    final siege of the fortress of Gaeta, where the Bourbon Army surrendered in February 1861. "The Illustrated London News". Leighton. 20 October 1860 – via...
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    Santo Stefano Island (category Islands of Lazio)
    October 1860, part of the Bourbon troops left the island for the siege of Gaeta. During a revolt, some Camorra prisoners proclaimed the Republic of Santo...
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    when the government of the Papal States was temporarily replaced by a republican government due to Pope Pius IX's departure to Gaeta. The republic was led...
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    Oskar von Sperling (category Prussian people of the Austro-Prussian War)
    promotion to major. In 1860 he was sent to Italy as a military obeserver, where he attended the Siege of Gaeta. On 18 October 1861, by now having returned...
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    Maritime republics (category Economic history of Italy)
    siege in 846 with the help of Naples and Amalfi, Gaeta defeated the Muslims at Ostia in 849 and on the Garigliano in 915; it also availed itself of their...
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    Ferdinando Beneventano del Bosco (category People of the Kingdom of Naples (Napoleonic))
    entry into Naples in November 1860, he went to the fortress of Gaeta to fight alongside Francesco II during the Siege of Gaeta. Two months later however,...
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    Orazio Di Negro (category Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy)
    commander of the Sardinian fleet Carlo Pellion di Persano was still engaged in the siege of Gaeta, the question of the merger between the former navy of the...
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    Gaeta, where he surrendered and abdicated in February 1861 after the Siege of Gaeta. At the encounter of Teano, Garibaldi met King Victor Emmanuel, transferring...
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    from the Marche. The last battles fought were that of the Volturnus in 1860 and the siege of Gaeta, where King Francis II had sought shelter, hoping for...
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    that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy....
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    Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia, Italian: [ˈreɲɲo diˈtaːlja]) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia...
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    Enrico Cialdini (category Dukes of Gaeta)
    won the Battle of Castelfidardo, took Ancona, and subsequently directed the Siege of Gaeta. For these services he was created Duke of Gaeta by the king,...
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    Italian frigate Giuseppe Garibaldi (category 1860 ships)
    of Italy's fleet and two days after the Borbone (now renamed the Giuseppe Garibaldi) entered the Sardinian fleet it took part in the siege of Gaeta,...
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    Luigi Federico Menabrea (category Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy)
    fortresses. In 1860 he became lieutenant-general and conducted the siege of Gaeta. He was appointed senator and received the title of count. Entering...
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    central Italian states and the Two Sicilies (1860), Venetia (1866), and the Papal States (1870). On 17 March 1861, to more accurately reflect its new geographic...
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    Pompeo Provana del Sabbione (category Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy)
    distinguished himself during the siege of Gaeta, earning the silver medal for military valor, and the siege of Messina. On 1 April 1861 he was promoted to rear...
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    Olimpia Savio (category People from the Kingdom of Sardinia)
    the siege of Ancona in 1860. In 1861 at the siege of Gaeta her son Emilio was killed. Savio became the personification of Our Lady of Sorrows of the Italian...
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    The Battle of Calatafimi was fought on the 15 May 1860 between Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts and the troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at Calatafimi...
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  • their prison in a riot. February 13 – Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta, stronghold of the Neapolitan King Francis II, is ended by Piedmontese forces...
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    3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment "Volturno" (category Artillery Regiments of Italy)
    in the Siege of Capua, from November 1860 to February 1861 in the Siege of Gaeta, and in March 1861 in the siege of Messina. In May 1911 the regiment received...
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