Booklet 3

Question 1

When was the Orsini bomb plot?

Answer 1

January 1858

Question 2

How many dead and injured from the Orsini bomb plot?

Answer 2

8 dead
150 injured

Question 3

When was the Pact of Plombieres?

Answer 3

21 July 1858

Question 4

What were 5 terms of the Pact of Plombiere?

Answer 4

• Austria had to provoke the war
• Upper Italy was to be ruled by the House of Savoy
• The pope remained in Rome
• France got Nice and Savoy in return for 20,000 soldiers.
• Marie Clotide to marry Jerome Bonaparte

Question 5

When was the Grido de Delore?

Answer 5

10th Jan 1859

Question 6

When did Piedmont mobalise their army on the border?

Answer 6

March 1859

Question 7

When did Austria demand that Piedmont demobalise?

Answer 7

April 23rd 1859

Question 8

When did Austria declare war on Italy?

Answer 8

April 29th 1859

Question 9

How many soldiers did Austria have when fighting Italy?

Answer 9

90,000

Question 10

How many national society members by 1857?

Answer 10

8000

Question 11

When did Cavour meet with Manin and Garibaldi?

Answer 11

1856

Question 12

Who led the National Society?

Answer 12

Pallavicino, Manin, La Farina

Question 13

When was the National Society demonstartion in Florence? Who established the prov gov once Leopald fled?

Answer 13

April 1859

Baron Ricasoli

Question 14

When was the National Society revolt in Modena and Parma? Who led the Governement?

Answer 14

June 1859

Luigi Farini

Question 15

When was the battle of Magenta?

Answer 15

4th June 1859

Question 16

How many Austrian casualties from Magenta?

Answer 16

5700

Question 17

What was achieved by Magenta?

Answer 17

• Part of Lombardy freed
• Como victory due to the Cacciatori delle Alpi

Question 18

What was the outcome of Magenta?

Answer 18

French Win

Question 19

When was the battle of Solferino?

Answer 19

24th June 1859

Question 20

How many Austrian casualties at Solferino?

Answer 20

39,000

Question 21

When did Prussia mobilise on the bank of the rhine?

Answer 21

June 1859

Question 22

How many doctors per casualties for Solferino?

Answer 22

1 doctor per 500 casualties.

Question 23

When was the Treaty of Villafranca? Who was not in attendence and when did he resign?

Answer 23

11th July 1859

Italy - Cavour resigned but came back Jan 1860

Question 24

What were the terms of the Treaty of Villafranca?

Answer 24

• Lombardy was given to france
• Piedmont not allowed to annex the Quadrilateral towns of Mantua and Peschiera
• France don’t take Nice and Savoy

Question 25

When was the treaty of Zurich?

Answer 25

November 1859

Question 26

Who declared the concept of self-determination?

Answer 26

Lord John Russell

Question 27

When was the Treaty of Turin negotiated?

Answer 27

Jan 1860

Question 28

What did the Treaty of Turin determine?

Answer 28

Nice and Savoy would be given to France if Napolean agreed to plebicites in the Duchies

Question 29

What was the plebiscite result for Tuscany?

Answer 29

360,000-15,000 yes 153,000 abstained

Question 30

What was the plebiscite result for Nice joining France?

Answer 30

25,000 to 160 yes

Question 31

What were Garibaldi's achievements in the 1859 war?

Answer 31

- Commanded 3000 volunteers - Crossed the Ticino River (23 May) - Caused Austria to retreat at the battle of San Fermo (27 May)

Question 32

What did Garibaldi recieve after the 1859 War?

Answer 32

Gold medel for Valour

Question 33

What did Garibaldi call Cavour after Nice was given to France?

Answer 33

A low intriguer

Question 34

What did Garibaldi offer The Thousand?

Answer 34

"Hunger, thirst, forced marches, battle and death"

Question 35

When did Garibaldi set sail for Sicily?

Answer 35

May 1860

Question 36

How many volunteers went with Garibaldi to Sicily?

Answer 36

1200 - The Thousand

Question 37

When did Garibaldi reach Marsala (sicily)? Who protected him?

Answer 37

11th May 1860 British Naval Ships

Question 38

When did Garibaldi reach Palermo (sicily)? What did the Thousand now number?

Answer 38

27 May 1860 3000

Question 39

How many Bourbon troops were awaiting Garibaldi in Palermo?

Answer 39

20,000

Question 40

What did Garibaldi promise the peasants of Sicily once he had appointed himself as Dictator?

Answer 40

Abolished the milling tax Land redistribution (Never happened to maintain Landlord support)

Question 41

Why was Cavour becoming hesitant regarding Garibaldi's capture of the South?

Answer 41

He thought he would try to take Piedmont

Question 42

Who did Cavour send to organise a pro-piedmontese revolt in Naples? What was the outcome?

Answer 42

Admrial Persano Failure

Question 43

How did Garibaldi avoid being captured and arrested by Cavour?

Answer 43

Crossed the straits to Calabria on 22 August 1860

Question 44

When did Garibaldi arrive in Naples?

Answer 44

September 1860

Question 45

How long did Garibaldi rule as Dictator of Naples for?

Answer 45

2 months

Question 46

How many did the Garabaldini number by 1860?

Answer 46

60,000 with another 9000 men waiting for him near the Papal States under Bersanti

Question 47

Where did VE defeat the Papal Army? When?

Answer 47

Castlefidaro - 18th September 1860

Question 48

When did Garibaldi and VE meet at Teano?

Answer 48

26th October 1860 Garibaldi handed the South to VE

Question 49

When did VE and Garibaldi arrive in Naples?

Answer 49

November 7th 1860

Question 50

Where were plebecites held in 1860?

Answer 50

March - Duchies April - Nice and Savoy October - South and Papal States

Question 51

What did Garibaldi retire with?

Answer 51

A years supply of Macaroni

Question 52

When were elections held for a new Parliament?

Answer 52

Jan 1861

Question 53

When was a new constitution adopted?

Answer 53

March 1861

Question 54

What two locations were still not unified at the beginning of the 1860s?

Answer 54

Rome and Venitia

Question 55

Why was Garibaldi so successful?

Answer 55

While exiled in Uraguay he learnt Guerilla tactics and used them against Argentina