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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1571866, member: 5682&quot;]The reason I study numismatics is that it gives me a better appreciation of the historical periods that interest me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tuscany was one of the regions of Italy that were unified (subjugated?) by King Victor Emmanuel from the House of Savoy, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in 1859.&nbsp; Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Piedmont-Sardinian Prime Minister, helped to manipulate the French for support of Italian liberation [?] from Austria.</p><p><br /></p><p>The debate, of course, is whether this represented a genuine Italian liberation and unification of the Italian states or a flagrant and unwanted subjugation by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (Piedmontese aggression).</p><p><br /></p><p>A true hero of Italian unification is Garibaldi, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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