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  1. Movement for Italian national unity and
  2. independence from 1815. Uprisings failed
  3. 1848-49, but with French help, a war against
  4. Austria, including the Battle of Solferino
  5. 1859, led to the foundation of an Italian
  6. kingdom 1861. Unification was finally
  7. completed with the addition of Venetia 1866
  8. and the Papal States 1870. Leading figures in
  9. the movement included Cavour, Mazzini, and
  10. Garibaldi.
  11.