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Austrian Military Intervention in Italy

The great powers met at trophaw in october 18 20 and approved austrian military intervention into italy. The british were now so opposed to great power intervention into the internal affairs of other states that they did not even send an official represent ve to tropau. France too looked like it planned to consider the matter outside the scope of its foreign policy and sent merely an observer, not a foe ambassador. So it was really down to austria, prussia and russia supporting action against the liberals in italy. This little three way eastern coalition invited the king of the two sicilies to submit a request for intervention, which he did in january of 18 21

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