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On March 17, 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in Turin and Vittorio Emanuele II, already the king of Piedmont and Sardinia, became the first king of Italy. Less than one month later, Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter.
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Bonazzi, T. (2016). The United States, Italy, and the Tribulations of the Liberal Nation. In: Nagler, J., Doyle, D., Gräser, M. (eds) The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40268-0_9
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