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Podcast: Talking History: The Italian Unification
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47 - David and Goliath
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:42:47
Publish Date: 2016-07-20 03:23:59
Description:

Ever since the fall of the Roman Republic to the French army in 1849, we've focused pretty exclusively on events in Northern Italy, because that was there the action was. That is going to change. Distracted by the annexation of most of northern Italy, Piedmont will temporarily lose the initiative, which will pass into the hands of the republicans and revolutionaries, and in particular, to Garibaldi. Today we begin the famous story of The Thousand, or in Italian, Il Mille. 

 
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