Who was more responsible for the success of Italian Unification up to 1861? Cavour, Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel or Napoleon.

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Who was more responsible for the success of Italian Unification up to 1861? Cavour,

Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel or Napoleon.

After the numerous failures of the revolutions, leading up to 1860 the many leaders had eventually made enough compromises and reforms so that unification could go ahead. Each leader had their own impact on the eventual success and all to an extent were needed for the decisions and actions, which they made. The unification of the North marked a significant event, which would lead to the unification of the whole of Italy.

Cavour leading Piedmont had implemented many reforms and instigated the unification through Piedmont which being the most prosperous state was the state, which had to lead. The south as far as we know without Garibaldi will not have been unified with the North. Victor Emmanuel was the figurehead of the state of Piedmont, although not the man pulling the strings he was the man to be seen as leading the process, a poster boy rather than someone whose actions actually had an influence. Napoleon was crucial in the early stages of unification where his much superior army was required to oust the Austrian army,