Armistice of Cormons
The Armistice of Cormòns was signed in Cormons on 12 August 1866, between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austrian Empire and was a prelude to the Treaty of Vienna, which ended the Third Italian War of Independence.
On 21 July 1866 the victorious Prussia, which had just inflicted a decisive defeat on Austrian army at the battle of Sadowa, signed the :de:Armistice of Nikolsburg|Armistice of Nikolsburg. In the same days the Italian Navy was defeated in the Battle of Lissa. On the contrary the Army was taking advantage of the redeployment of many Austrian units to the Prussian front. Garibaldi's volunteers, reinforced by regular units, gained terrain in Trentino and achieved a decisive victory at Bezzecca; the main Italian army led by general Enrico Cialdini reached Udine, while a secondary army led by general Alfonso La Marmora was contemporary blocking some Austrian forces in the Quadrilatero fortresses.
After the armistice of Nikolsburg, Italian staff ordered to withdraw from Trentino. Garibaldi replied by telegraph with a sentence that became famous: Obbedisco.
Soon after Prussia and Austria signed the Peace of Prague, while the definitive peace between Italy and Austria was ratified only on 3 October 1866 by the Treaty of Vienna, with the mediation of Napoleon III. The Austrian Empire recognized formally the Kingdom of Italy and ceded Venetia to the French Empire, which in turn ceded it to Italy. This represented the final dissolution of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, as mainland Lombardy had been ceded to Sardinia-Piedmont by the Treaty of Zurich in 1859.
