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Name: Second Italian War of Independence
Type: Event
Start: 1859
End: 1860
Parents: Wars of Italian Unification
Children: Peace of Villafranca
Second Italian War of Independence: All Data
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Was the second of the three traditional Italian Wars of Independence. It was fought by the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Kingdom of France against the Austrian Empire. It resulted in the Sardinian annexion of Austrian ruled Lombardy, as well as the annexion of several Italian polities in Central Italy.