In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.

Cavour saw that Piedmont would not be able to add to its territory singlehandedly.

The Austrians would retain Venetia, but would cede Lombardy to the French, who would then immediately cede it to Piedmont ( the Austrians were unwilling to cede the area to Piedmont directly ).

Because Napoleon had not fulfilled the terms of his agreement with Piedmont, he would not gain Savoy and Nice.

In the 1647 campaign, Thomas Francis is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.

In the 1647 campaign, Thomas is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.

In 1858, they met at Plombières-les-Bains ( in Lorraine ), where they agreed that if the French were to help Piedmont combat Austria, which still occupied the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia in northern Italy, France would be awarded Nice and Savoy.

However, sickened by the casualties of the war and worried about the mobilisation of Prussian troops, Napoleon III secretly made a treaty with Franz Joseph of Austria at Villafranca whereby Piedmont would only gain Lombardy.

Vittorio Emanuele was born 12 February 1937 in Naples to Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, who would later become the last King of Italy, and Princess Marie-José of Belgium.

The history of what would become known as Piedmont dates back to the mid-1850s.

It would later become known as Piedmont, Greenville County, South Carolina when the name was changed once again by the owner of the first successful cotton mill of the area who had purchased the original mill's property from David Sr. David Sr's property was located between Piedmont and Pelzer on Golden Grove Creek of the Saluda River where he appears on the 1790 Census and he is known as the founder of Piedmont

The senior generals of the Austrian army strongly approved this plan, as the alternative would have meant that the Austrian army would have had to retreat along the river Po and leave Piedmont to the enemy without a fight.

Common as it is now on some of the lower slopes of the Alps of Piedmont and Savoy, it is uncertain whether the Romans were acquainted with the gooseberry, though it may possibly be alluded to in a vague passage of Pliny the Elder's Natural History ; the hot summers of Italy, in ancient times as at present, would be unfavourable to its cultivation.

In North Carolina, 31, 000 gallons of PCB-contaminated oil were deliberately dripped in a 3-foot swath along some 240 miles of rural Piedmont highways, creating the largest PCB spills in American history and a public health crisis that would have repercussions for generations to come.

By November and December, temperatures in the Piedmont region would be cold enough to halt fermentation, leaving a significant amount of residual sugar left in the wine.

Literary Piedmontese developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, but it did not gain literary esteem comparable to that of French or Italian, other languages used in Piedmont.

Piedmont was an initial springboard for Italy's unification in 1859 – 1861, following earlier unsuccessful wars against the Austrian Empire in 1820 – 1821 and 1848 – 1849.

* April 29 – Austrian troops begin to cross the Ticino River to Piedmont.

At the same time Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne with an Austrian corps struck at the allies on the Lower Po, and cut off their communication with the main body in Piedmont.

The Austrian advance into Piedmont was incompetent, and they were unable to secure the Alpine passes before the arrival of the French army, led personally by Napoleon III.

The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.

A terrible battle took place at Solferino in 1859 during the campaign by France and Piedmont against the Austrian empire.

The revolution was led by the state of Piedmont, one of the four states where the Austrian leaders were forced to grant liberal rights.

In addition sending troops to defend the Piedmont from Austrian forces put Rome at risk of attack from Austria.

During the War of the Quadruple Alliance, Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy and sovereign of Piedmont, had to agree to yield Sicily to the Austrian Habsburgs and receive Sardinia in exchange.

Giuseppe Garibaldi formed the " Italian Legion ", with many recruits coming from Piedmont and the Austrian territories of Lombardy and Venetia, and took up a station at the border town of Rieti on the border with the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.

The Piedmont was at risk of attack by Austrian forces, and the Republic's movement of troops in the area was a threat to Austria ( which was certainly capable of attacking Rome itself ).

This was preceded, on the 10th of March, by the revolt of the garrison of Alessandria and the military revolution in Piedmont, which in its turn was suppressed, as a result of negotiations at Laibach, by Austrian troops.

This treaty gave Austrian recognition to the existence of the Cisalpine Republic ( made up of Lombardy, Emilia Romagna and small parts of Tuscany and Veneto ), and annexed Piedmont to France.

Finally, on May 25, the Supreme Imperial Commissioner Count Heinrich von Bellegarde took all the powers in Lombardy, and former monarchies in Modena, Romagna and Piedmont were gradually re-established ; on May 30, the Treaty of Paris was signed, and the remains of the kingdom were annexed by the Austrian Empire, as announced by Count Bellegarde on June 12.

The Austrian forces counted on a swift victory over the weaker Sardinian army before French forces could arrive in Piedmont.

In May 1859, on the eve of the war with France and Piedmont, he was appointed Austrian minister of foreign affairs and minister-president, surrendering the latter post to the Archduke Rainer in the following year.

When on March 18 Field Marshal Radetzky, feeling that the position of the Austrian garrison was untenable, sounded the rebels as to their terms, some of the leaders were inclined to agree to an armistice which would give time for the Piedmontese troops to arrive ( Piedmont had just declared war ), but Cattaneo insisted on the complete evacuation of Lombardy.

He studied architecture in the University of Pavia, but when he was twenty, he fled from Lombardy ( at the time under Austrian domination ) to enroll in the Piedmont army.

In 1847, under King Charles Albert, the Perfect fusion between Sardinia, Piedmont and all other territories granted equal rights to all inhabitants of the Kingdom, who became an unitary state and the basic legislation of the future united Italy.

The kingdom included not only the island of Sardinia, but also significant territories in northwest Italy including all of Piedmont.

At the time, the Holy See was threatened by the nationalist troops of Victor Emmanuel II, king of Piedmont, who was attempting to assert control over all Italy including papal territories, and the priest's mission in Rome was secret.

The territories of Victor Amadeus II, the Duke of Savoy, comprised the County of Nice, Duchy of Savoy and the Principality of Piedmont, which contained the capital city, Turin.

The early decades were marked by discontinuity, due to epidemics and crises that plagued the region between the 1420s and the 1430s following the annexation of the Piedmont territories to the Duchy of Savoy and by difficult relations between the University and the local Public Administration.

The beginning of Irredentism in Italy was originated as a consequence of the French expansion in Italy that started with the annexation of Corsica in 1768 and was followed by Napoleon's inclusion-inside the territories of France's First French Empire-of the regions of Piedmont, Liguria and Tuscany.

When, in the summer of 1859, Emperor Napoleon III, together with Victor Emmanuel II King of Piedmont and Sardinia, tried to oust the Hapsburgs from their territories in northern Italy, Meissonier received a government commission to illustrate scenes from the campaign.

In 1618 king Philip III charged him with the devolution of the territories conquered by the Spanish forces in Piedmont to the duke of Savoy.