When the Austrian ultimatum was delivered to the Sardinian government, the Savoy army numbered 65,000 men, with 700 officers drawn from across the Italian peninsula. This was a larger, more trained, and more motivated force than during the First War of Independence. The Second War of Independence, which was about to begin, would unfold in three parts: the Little War in Piedmont with the Austrians and Piedmontese, the Capture of Milan, with French intervention, and finally the Battle of Solferino on the Mincio, in the Quadrilatero.
