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 | | Victor Emmanuel II Victor Emmanuel II (1820-1878), king of Sardinia (1849-1861) and king of Italy (1861-1878), born on March 14, 1820, in Turin. |
 | | Victor Emmanuel strongly supported the movement towards national unity that was growing in Italy at this time. |
 | | The central Italian states accepted him as their king, and after the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi captured the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from the French in 1860-1861, Victor Emmanuel was master of the entire peninsula, with the exception of Venetia, still held by the Austrians, and the Papal States. |
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