Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Italy Events Date Type 05/27/1860 American ship founders in the Bay of Biscay and is abandoned without loss of life Crime/Disasters 05/10/1859 - 05/12/1859 French Emperor Napoleon III travels from Paris to Genoa to take command of the French troops in Italy Foreign 05/01/1860 Garibaldi and his thousand volunteers set out on their invasion of Bourbon Sicily US/the World 05/02/1860 King Victor Emmanuel II and Prime Minister Cavour meet in Bologna about Garibaldi's planned move on Sicily US/the World People Documents Images Piedmont-Sardinia, 1857, zoomable map Northern Italy, 1857, zoomable map