Word: custozza
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...Vittorio Emanuele set a precedent which has been followed in Italy: as Prussia and Austria went to war, he picked Austria as the loser and attacked from the south. He was soundly trounced at Custozza, but he got Venetia in the peace settlement. When France was prostrate in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 he annexed the Papal State, which Napoleon had protected. The peninsula was at last united. Proclaimed Vittorio Emanuele: "It only remains to make our country great and happy...
...presented to the Central Powers her conditions for entering the war on their side. All but one of the conditions were rejected, and Italy signed the Treaty of London on April 26, declared war on Austria May 24. World War I gave Italy another great defeat to place beside Custozza and Aduwa: Caporetto...
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