who was Count Camillo de Cavour?
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Count Camillo de Cavour: Of the seven states of Italy, only Sardinia-Piedmont was ruled by an Italian princely house. When the revolutionary uprisings of 1831 and 1848 failed to unite Italy, the responsibility to establish a unified Italy fell upon this Italian state. King Victor Emmanuel II was its ruler and Cavour was the Chief Minister. Cavour led the movement to unite the separate states of nineteenth-century Italy. He engineered a careful diplomatic alliance with France, which helped Sardinia-Piedmont defeat the Austrian forces in 1859, and thereby free the northern part of Italy from the Austrian Habsburgs.
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★ Camillo Benso Cavour was an, 1810–61, Italian statesman, premier of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
★ The active force behind King Victor Emmanuel II, he was responsible more than any other man for the unification of Italy under the house of Savoy .
★ Of a noble Piedmontese family, he entered the army early but came under suspicion for his liberal ideas and was forced to resign in 1831.
★ He then devoted himself to travel, agricultural experimentation, and the study of politics.
★ He played a leading part in the unification of Italy.