Why did the Austrians insist on ceding Lombardy and Veneto to France so they could immediately cede it to Italy, rather than just ceding the land directly to Italy? Kind of a sore loser move no?
>>17438457No, it was a bold and truthful way of making it clear just how useless the Italian "military" was.
>>17438460>>17438669And yet Italy single-handedly destroyed Austria's empire a century later, causing its dissolution, and today Italy exists, while the Habsburgs are lost in obscurity.Take that, Franz Joseph!
>>17438679The deleted post was mine, i thought that was Napoleonic Italy lmao, Sardinia did what it could as a relatively poor power against the Austrians, so it was a sore loser move imo
>>17438679>1859>1918>"century">three front war>single-handedly>30th Battle of the Isonzo
