✦ History

Capture of Rome

September 20, 1870

Taking of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy after French troops left for the Franco-Prussian War, which ended the Papal States and completed Italian unification.

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Battles and events 1

March 18, 1848 โ€“ January 26, 1871
Italian unification Italian peninsula Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II, Giuseppe Garibaldi

Key commanders

Italy 1

Victor Emmanuel II King of Italy

Papal States 1

Pope Pius IX Pope, ruler of the Papal States

Other 3

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour Prime Minister of Sardinia, Directed unification through diplomacy and war Giuseppe Garibaldi General, Conquered Sicily and Naples with the Thousand Giuseppe Mazzini Revolutionary, Inspired the nationalist movement