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GIACOMO DURANDO (1807-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 694 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DURANDO (1807-1894)  , See also:Italian See also:general and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Mondovi in See also:Piedmont . He was implicated in the revolutionary movements of 1831 and 1832, after which he was obliged to take See also:refuge abroad . He served in the Belgian See also:army, taking See also:part in the See also:war of 1832, and fought in See also:Portugal in 1833 . The following See also:year he entered the service of See also:Spain, when he fought in various See also:campaigns, and was promoted See also:colonel in 1838 . After a See also:short stay in See also:France he returned to See also:Italy and identified himself with the Liberal See also:movement; he became an active journalist, and founded a newspaper called L' Opinione in 1847 . In 1848 he was one of those who asked See also:King See also:Charles See also:Albert for the constitution . On the outbreak of the war with See also:Austria he took command of the Lombard See also:volunteers as See also:major-general, and in the See also:campaign of 1849 he was aide-de-See also:camp to the king . He was elected member of the first Piedmontese See also:parliament and was a strenuous supporter of See also:Cavour; during the See also:Crimean campaign he took General La See also:Marmora's See also:place as war See also:minister . In 1855 he was nominated senator, See also:lieutenant-general in 1856, See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople in 1859, and minister for See also:foreign affairs in the Rattazzi See also:cabinet two years later . He was See also:president of the See also:senate from 1884 to 1887, after which year he retired from the army . He died in 1894 . His See also:brother, GIOVANNI See also:DURANDO (1804-1869), was in See also:early See also:life driven into See also:exile on See also:account of his Liberal opinions .

He served in the armies of See also:

Belgium, Portugal and Spain, distinguishing himself in many engagements . Returning to Italy on the out-break of the revolution of 1848, he was appointed See also:commander of a See also:division of the pontifical forces, and fought against the Austrians in See also:Venetia until the fall of See also:Vicenza, when he returned to Piedmont as major-general . In the campaign of 1849 he commanded the first Piedmontese division; he subsequently served in the See also:Crimea, in the war of 1859, and in that of 1866 as commander of the I . Army See also:Corps . In 1867 he was appointed president of the supreme military and See also:naval tribunal .

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