Editing Unification of Italy (section)

===The repercussions on diplomatic relations===
[[File:Proclamation_of_the_Kingdom_of_Italy.jpg|thumb|right|Painting depicting the [[proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy]] in 1861.]]
The disapproval of the various European states culminated in the direct participation of the Sardinian army in the [[Expedition of the Thousand]].<ref name=gnosis>{{cite web|url=http://www.sisde.it/Gnosis/Rivista26.nsf/ServNavig/57|title=Il problema della sicurezza ed il riconoscimento internazionale del Regno d'Italia|access-date=12 August 2011|language=it|archive-date=10 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210083512/http://www.sisde.it/Gnosis/Rivista26.nsf/ServNavig/57|url-status=dead}}</ref> In reaction, [[Spain]] and the [[Russian Empire]] interrupted diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Sardinia, while the [[Austrian Empire]], which had not maintained relations with this country since 1859, after the Second Italian War of Independence,<ref name=gnosis/> sent its troops to the [[Mincio]] border. [[France]] made no hostile statements, but recalled its ambassador. [[Queen Victoria]] and her prime minister [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|John Russell]] convinced the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] not to hinder the ongoing process of Italian unification.<ref name=cr>{{cite web|url=http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/a1860i.htm|title=Regno delle Due Sicilie - ultimo atto|access-date=12 August 2011|language=it|archive-date=2 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202132806/http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/a1860i.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 26 October 1860, the same day as the meeting in Teano between the king and Garibaldi, Austria organized a congress in [[Warsaw]] to apply measures against the Kingdom of Sardinia, without success; held back by this crisis, Cavour was unable to be present at Teano.<ref name=gnosis/>

After the creation of the Kingdom of Italy, the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[Swiss Confederation]] were the first to recognize the new state (30 March 1861), followed by the [[United States]] on 13 April.<ref name=gnosis/><ref name="a150">{{cite web|language=it|url=http://www.150anni.it/webi/index.php?s=36&wid=101|title=La costruzione dello Stato e i nuovi indirizzi politici, Il difficile riconoscimento diplomatico|access-date=12 August 2011}}</ref> France negotiated the presence of French troops in Rome and recognized the Kingdom of Italy on 15 June, shortly after Cavour's death. It was then [[Portugal]]'s turn on 27 June, followed by [[Greece]], the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Scandinavia]]n countries. The recognition of the [[Netherlands]] and [[Belgium]] occurred in two phases: they recognized the new title of Victor Emmanuel II in July, then the kingdom in November, after a long clash between conservatives and liberals in the Belgian parliament over the latter.<ref name="a150"/>