Unification of Italy - A rising in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Time: 1857

Place: Italy

Details: In 1857, Carlo Pisacane, an aristocrat from Naples who had embraced Mazzini's ideas, decided to provoke a rising in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. His small force landed on the island of Ponza.

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