Roman Republic Crushed
April 12, 1849
Mazzini and Garibaldi had driven Pope Pius IX from Rome and proclaimed a short-lived Roman Republic. French troops sent by Louis-Napoleon to court Catholic voters at home besieged the city and broke in after weeks of fighting on the Janiculum. Garibaldi slipped out with his wife Anita, who would die in the retreat.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.