How significant was Mazzini in the growth of opposition to autocratic and foreign rule in Italy in the years 1831–49? (30) Mazzini was a republican nationalist who had a significant effect in the growth of anti-autocratic feeling in Italy. He had radical aims for the future of Italy and he envisioned unification. He was the first leader to indoctrinate in the minds of Italians a vision of political unification. Mazzini created the Young Italy society after the 1831 revolutions.
Most of the Italian states where united under piedmont. The Austrian possessions which were not seized in 1860 were then joined with the help of Bismarck in the year 1866. Before and during 1860, Cavour showed the most amazing skill to unite his country. The unity of Italy would not have been possible if they defied both the countries of France and Austria that possessed great powers. Cavour then brought Napoleon III to his side with the cities of Nice and Savoy.
Natasha Daoudi 10B Napoleon Bonaparte: Successes and Failures Why was Napoleon Bonaparte successful in overcoming his opponents, both domestic and foreign up until 1812? Why was he largely unsuccessful after this date? 1,475 words Introduction Napoleon Bonaparte came to power in 1795 but before that he was born on August 15th 1769, in the island of Corsica, France to Italian parents. He went to school and received a high-quality education and by the time 1785 he joined the French army as a second lieutenant. Through his knowledge and experience Napoleon rose from the shadows of France; with the fall of Robespierre and the “Reign of Terror” and became its new emperor.
He strived for the unity of Italy as a whole peninsula that had a republican democracy. He believed that there should be a democracy and that individual rights and freedoms should be granted. Mazzini was an advocate for liberality and equality, proven by the fact that he helped to pass laws such as the universal manhood suffrage which allowed all men to vote regardless of their income, instituted government control over clerical salaries - therefor creating less of a division between the Italian people, argued for universal education and also the liberation of women. This emphasised the fact that he appealed mainly to those of the lower/working
Germany was actually more divided than Italy. She had more than three hundred petty independent states, and they had no form of common government. Nonetheless, “ the Germans had a common language and shared some memories of unity in medieval times. Secondly,both the French Revolution and Napoleon affected the two countries. Italy was particularly influenced by the career of Napoleon who first rose to fame with his Italian campaign (1796).
This corruption also added to the instability of government and its mandate to rule Italy. Finally the liberal state also took it upon itself to unite the country and build an empire. This is partly because it saw itself as a better more powerful nation that it was. However by this time most of the best places to colonized has already been conquered by other European powers. Despite this Italy tried to colonize many parts of Africa.
Thematic Essay Nationalism is a concept that has continuously held together and torn apart groups of people through history. It is a feeling of pride or devotion in one’s country and has worked to strengthen and form United Nations as well as destroy them. Through the history of both Germany and Italy it can be seen how beneficial nationalism is in strengthening and unifying a country. People were able to come together through the sharing of a common heritage. This was not the case in other empires such as the Ottomans and Austrians, where nationalism was the very cause of their collapse.
Italian Unification Outline Intro- Italy was unified by Piedmont in 1870. Foreign intervention played a somewhat moderate role in Italian Unification, it is evident that the Unification of Italy was dependent on several main factors; the spread of nationalism by Mazzini and Carbonari, the works of Cavour and Garibaldi, the 1848 revolution and the support of other countries. Topic 1- Nationalism Mazzini and Cabonari were the main causes in the spread of Nationalism in Italy. Carbonari was a secret society that organized revolutions against Austrian rule; from 1820-1830 revolutions started in Italy. Although the results were ineffective it was effective in the sense of spreading Nationalism.
Name: kartik Patel Subject: history 101 Professor: Dr. Gilbert stack Essay: Hannibal Hannibal Hannibal, a Carthaginian general and one of the greatest generals that ever lived was renown for his strategies and courageousness, such as crossing the Alps and using the bottleneck strategy at Lake Tradesmen. He used strategies that a lot of generals at this time, especially Roman generals, would never think of and in doing this he almost destroyed the Roman republic. From the middle of the 3rd century to the middle of the 2nd century BC, Carthage was engaged in a series of wars with Rome (Dorey, P 57). These wars, known as the Punic Wars, ended
They also had more troops than the Italians had 75,000 troops to Italy’s 30,000 troops. The revolutions in Italy only had a chance to success when Austria was busy concentrating on the revolutions back home. After the failure of the Austrian revolutions, the Austrian army had even more troops to use against the Italian army. Austria also had the advantage of the leadership of Radetzky who was a skilful general. The leadership of Radetzky was important to the Austrian army as his guidance was much better than that of Charles Albert’s.The Austrian army was also very well equipped with weapons while the Italian army was not.