Revolutions: impact of the Pope

Impact of Pope:

• at the beginning, things began going well for Charles Albert; his army had defeated the Austrians at the end of May 1848 but situations in the Papal States weren't going so well:
• the Pope's commander had disobeyed orders and set off with his troops to join Albert's army - this created difficulties for the Pope, whom was not at war with Austria
• the Pope decided to keep out of the war and to make himself clear, he announced an important allocution
• he not only made it clear that he wasn't at…