November 2, 2013
It was the bloodiest battle since Waterloo.
Yet the carnage wrought 150 years ago by the Italian and French
troops, fighting under Napoleon III, and the forces of the Austrian
Hungarian Empire, was overshadowed by its aftermath.
While 30,000 had died on the battlefield, more than 40,000 succumbed to their injuries in the days following the fighting.
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