War with Austria
HideShow resource information
- Created by: Abigail
- Created on: 30-10-13 10:49
Fullscreen
- Piedmont now had support from a large country outside of Italy for a war, but the problem was how to provoke war with Austria without appearing as the aggressor
- several attempts were made to do this
- another reason why Austria had to be seen as the aggressor is because they would gain allies otherwise, Britain, etc. would support them in an unprovoked war
- Victor Emmanuel II gave a provocative speech to try an lure Austria into a war - this did not work
- Cavour then decided to mobilise the Piedmontese army
- after a while, something did errupt: Austria demanded that Cavour demobilise his troops immediately
- fearing a possible attack, Austria then mobilised their troops - which was a large army. But it was also expensive to do this for a long time
- Austria had sent an ultimatum for Cavour, and he refused
- in response, Austria declared war on Piedmont 29th April 1859
The battles:
- there…
Comments
No comments have yet been made