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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, was the leading statesman of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the first prime minister of united Italy. As premier from 1852 he modernised Piedmont's economy, joined the Crimean War and, in the Plombières agreement of 1858, won Napoleon III's support for war against Austria in 1859. He then managed the annexation of central Italy and of Garibaldi's conquests in the south, and died in 1861, soon after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy.
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