12) Cavour, Camillo Benso, conte di. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...premier (1852-59, 1860-61) of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The active force behind King Victor Emmanuel II, he was responsible more than any other man for the unification...

13) Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo, duca degli. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...da´lye abroot´tse) (KEY) , 1873-1933, Italian explorer and mountain climber; cousin of Victor Emmanuel III. He led (1897) the first ascent of Mt. St. Elias in Alaska....

14) Lateran Treaty. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in the Lateran Palace, Rome, by Cardinal Gasparri for Pius XI and by Benito Mussolini for Victor Emmanuel III. One of the important negotiators was Cardinal Pacelli,...

15) Vatican. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Roman Question was ended by the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between Pope Pius XI and King Victor Emmanuel III (negotiated by Cardinal Gasparri and Mussolini), the Vatican...

16) Francis II, king of the Two Sicilies. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Italian unity (see Risorgimento), he first sided with Austria. When he sought the alliance of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia, around whom the movement for Italian...

17) Francis Joseph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Emmanuel II of Sardinia. In the Italian War of 1859, in which he faced Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel, he lost Lombardy to Sardinia by the Treaty of Villafranca...

18) Cadorna, Luigi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...defeat at Caporetto in 1917 he was in fact commander of military operations, while King Victor Emmanuel III was nominally commander in chief. Cadorna wrote two military...

19) Pius IX. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...III. The Italian nationalists were eager for Rome and the Papal States, and in 1860 Victor Emmanuel II seized all but Rome and its neighborhood. In 1870, on the deposition...

20) Badoglio, Pietro. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...general staff until 1940. After the fall of Mussolini, he was made (1943) premier by King Victor Emmanuel III. He negotiated an armistice with the Allies, whom he...