In 1861 In Turin, following a decades-long struggle and two wars of Italian independence, the first Italian parliament proclaimed Victor Emmanuel as the first king of the new state of Italy. While Victor Emmanuel II, the king of Sardinia, was a significant figure in the construction of this new state, Italy wouldn’t have been constructed without the campaign led by Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Overseeing an army whose numbers kept increasing and increasing, the general annexed the whole of southern Italy as he and his forces moved north, an irresistible tide of nationalist revolutionaries.
