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    Charles Albert (Italian: Carlo Alberto I; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849) was the King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard state from 27 April 1831 until...
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    First Italian War of Independence (category 1848 in the Kingdom of Sardinia)
    Italian Unification (Risorgimento), was fought by the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) and Italian volunteers against the Austrian Empire and other conservative...
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    with a plebiscite that brought Naples and Sicily into the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the last territorial conquest before the proclamation of the Kingdom...
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    Prince Ferdinand, 1st Duke of Genoa, second son of King Charles Albert of Sardinia and Maria Theresa of Austria and Tuscany. Their marriage was a dynastic...
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  • the Battle of Novara, King Charles Albert of Sardinia abdicated in favor of his son Victor Emmanuel II, and Piedmont signed a peace treaty with the Austrian...
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    Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (category Queens consort of Sardinia)
    daughter of Maximilian Karl Albert, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. King Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia approached her family and proposed...
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    the murdered princesse de Lamballe and grandfather of King Charles Albert of Sardinia. Born in Turin to Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano and his wife Landgravine...
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    Congress of Vienna. Tuscany was occupied by soldiers of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia for the duration of the conflict. The Armistice of Villafranca, agreed...
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    Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano (category People from the Kingdom of Sardinia)
    the Basilica of Superga. Prince Charles Albert of Savoy (1798–1849), Prince of Carignano, and King of Sardinia, married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria...
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    expand it into a kingdom. Charles was born in the Castle of Rivoli in Piedmont, the only child of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy and Margaret of France...
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