A History of the Coldstream Guards, from 1815 to 1895

part in a policy of adventure, by attempting, though unsuccessfully, to

establish French influence, under cover of an Austrian prince, in Mexico. But in Europe itself the trouble was greater: France and Sardinia attacked Austria in Lombardy in 1859, and forced her to relinquish her possession of that province; Italy also rose in rebellion against the Princes that then ruled her Stat...