- Giacomo Durando
Giacomo Durando (
February 4 ,1807 - 1894) was an Italian general and statesman.Biography
Druando was born at
Mondovi , inPiedmont .He was implicated in the revolutionary movements of 1831 and 1832, after which he was obliged to take refuge abroad. He served in the Belgian army, taking part in the war of 1832, and fought in
Portugal in 1833. The following year he entered the service ofSpain , when he fought in various campaigns, and was promoted colonel in 1838.After a short stay in France he returned to Italy and identified himself with the Liberal movement; he became an active journalist, and founded a newspaper called "L'Opinione" in 1847. In 1848 he was one of those who asked King Charles Albert for the constitution.
On the outbreak of the war with Austria he took command of the Lombard volunteers as major-general, and in the campaign of 1849 he was "
aide-de-camp " to the king. He was elected member of the first Piedmontese parliament and was a strenuous supporter of Cavour; during the Crimean campaign he took General La Marmora's place as war minister.In 1855 he was nominated senator, lieutenant-general in 1856, ambassador at
Constantinople in 1859, and minister for foreign affairs in the Rattazzi cabinet two years later. He was president of the senate from 1884 to 1887, after which year he retired from the army.References
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