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A place where my students can ask questions and get answers.
About Me
- DJW
- I have been a History teacher since 1973, and Chaplain of Ipswich School since 2002. I was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and at Jesus College, Cambridge. My main historical interest is Russian History, and I have written two books on that subject: "Russia: a Modern History" (UTP, 1984) and "Chronicle of the Russians Tsars" (Thames and Hudson, 1999). I was ordained deacon in 2004 and priest in 2005 and, as well as working at Ipswich School, I am Honorary Assistant Curate at St. Mary le Tower, the Civic Church of Ipswich. I shall be retiring from Ipswich School in July 2010 and am looking forward to part-time ministry in the Diocese of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Why did Manin have the change of heart to support Italian unification by the King of Sardinia?
ReplyDeleteBecause Sardinia had more support?
The experience of the military defeat of the Venetian Republic, of which he was leader, by the Austrians, persuaded him that the help of a foreign state would be necessary if Austrian hegemony in Italy was to be broken. He then realized that foreign help would never be forthcoming in support of any republican movement for the liberation or unification of Italy, so he realized that no change of any kind was possible unless republicanism was abandoned.
ReplyDeleteDid Prussia make any territorial gains from the Franco-Prussian War?
ReplyDeleteYes - Alsace-Lorraine. Prussia also forced France to pay a large indemnity (cash sum) to cover the costs of the war.
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