Sardinian expeditionary corps in the Crimean War information
Bersaglieri halt the Russians during the Battle of the Chernaya.
The Kingdom of Sardinia sided with France, Britain and the Ottoman Empire against Russia during the Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856) and sent an expeditionary force to the Crimea in 1855.
King Victor Emmanuel II and his prime minister, Count Camillo di Cavour, decided to side with Britain and France in order to gain favour in the eyes of those powers at the expense of Austria, which had refused to join the war against Russia.[1]
Sardinia committed a total of 18,000 troops under Lieutenant General Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora to the Crimean Campaign.[2]: 111–12
Cavour aimed to gain the favour of the French regarding the issue of uniting Italy in a war against the Austrian Empire. The deployment of Italian troops to the Crimea, and the gallantry shown by them in the Battle of the Chernaya (16 August 1855) and in the siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), allowed the Kingdom of Sardinia to attend the peace negotiatiatons for ending the war at the Congress of Paris (1856), where Cavour could raise the issue of the Risorgimento with the European great powers.
^Arnold, Guy (2002). Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War. Scarecrow Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780810866133. Although initially opposed to intervention in the Crimean War on the side of the Allies, Cavour changed his mind when Victor Emmanuel II insisted on war so as to prevent his own dismissal and then used the occasion of the war to further Piedmont's claims to Italy.
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Arnold, Guy (2002). Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810866133.
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