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unusual facts about king of Sardinia



Charles A. Blanchard

Named after the King of Sardinia, Charles Albert Blanchard was ten years old when his father left the Galesburg, Illinois area to assume the presidency of the Illinois Institute, which was soon to become Wheaton College.

Italian and Swiss expedition

The king of Sardinia greeted him as a hero and conferred on him the rank of "Prince of the House of Savoy", among other honors.

Marquess of Saint Philip

Marquess of Saint Philip, also spelled as Marquis of Saint Philip or St. Philip (in Spanish: Marqués de San Felipe; in Italian: Marchese di San Filippo) is a title granted in 1709 by Philip V, king of Spain and, at that time, claimant king of Sardinia, to the Sardinian nobleman and politician Vicente Bacallar.

Paolo Frisi

When twenty-one years of age he composed a treatise on the figure of the earth, and the reputation which he soon acquired led to his appointment by the King of Sardinia to the professorship of philosophy in the College of Casale.

Tunnel boring machine

Commissioned by the King of Sardinia in 1845 to dig the Fréjus Rail Tunnel between France and Italy through the Alps, Maus had it built in 1846 in an arms factory near Turin.


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Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave

In 1793, due to the fact that he was on a mission to the King of Sardinia in Turin, he was near at hand when British forces captured the French port of Toulon, and he briefly took command of the British land forces there, before withdrawing upon the arrival of more senior officers.

Ignazio Collino

He also helped complete the royal tombs for the king of Sardinia, in the church of Superga, and finally the colossal statue of St. Agabus in Novara.