Yet everything took a sudden turn for the worse. Before Charles II had even finished taking over the Duchy of Parma, one uprising after another broke out. He was forced to accept three constitutions in succession and declare war on the Austrian Empire twice.
Worse still, this time the Austrians had chosen not to back down, while the radicals in Parma were ready to get serious. This tiny country, with a population of only a few hundred thousand, was actually planning to send fifty thousand troops to fight the Austrians.
They even wanted their king to foot the bill. Charles II could only weep as he contributed his life savings of three million francs.
But the Liberals were clearly not satisfied. They seized the Bourbon-Parma family's property as military funds.
At that moment, the rulers of the small states in Central Italy all realized the same thing: if this went on, sooner or later they would bring about their own ruin. Without coordinating, they began preparing to flee.
Tyrol, Weissenstein Castle, also known as "White Stone City," the Austrian Empire's temporary General Staff headquarters.
Faced with news that 450,000 Italian Allied Forces were attacking Northern Italy, Franz remained composed and continued analyzing the French Provisional Government's logic.
He couldn't understand why the French Provisional Government had made such a foolish and irrational decision. Going to war with Austria was completely against their interests and the situation they were in.
As soon as the Russian ambassador learned that France was about to declare war on Austria, he announced that Russia would help Austria resist France's wicked aggression.
The Russian ambassador had little authority, but Nicholas I had long since given his tacit approval to certain things, such as a war against revolutionary France.
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