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Unexpectedly, in 1887, Leo XIII appointed him a baron, and this time
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Italian troops to enter Rome peacefully, Kanzler prepared for defense by proclaiming a state of siege. In a few days the walls were equipped with the available artillery and the city gates were buried. Troops stationed in the province were recalled and
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Garibaldians, with the tacit support of the Kingdom of Italy, started a real military campaign that from north and south aimed to conquer Rome. This led to the Battle of Monterotondo (October 25, 1867) and that of Mentana (November 3, 1867) where the French Expeditionary
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The following year, suffering from a sore on his foot, Kanzler died, peacefully and with all religious comforts, surrounded by his family, including his son Rudolf who would become one of the most famous archaeologists of ancient Rome. His family went extinct, with the death of his nephew Angelo in
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After the taking of Porta Pia, at the age of 48, Kanzler's career was over; he decided to stay in Rome with his family, continuing to maintain the now honorific position of proministro delle Armi. After the death of Pius IX he declined a pension from the
Italian government with dignity and lived in
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Napoleon III, the State of the Church was now in the hands of his army and, as Pius IX wrote, "of God". Kanzler was under no illusions. Although the Italian Army had clearly preponderant forces, it aimed at an
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The first major commitments came in 1867 when outbreaks of revolt were stirred up inside the
Eternal City which, although not having the desired effects in the Roman population, produced the attack on the Serristori Barracks, the insurrection at the Ajani Wool Mill, severely repressed, and
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Force also made a decisive contribution, thanks also to its new
Chassepot breech-loading rifles. The defeat for Garibaldi was complete. The excellent telegraph system and the encrypted code in use proved to be important for the papal victory.
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all-out resistance, until the inevitable capitulation of what remained of the State of the Church, which would demonstrate to Europe the violence perpetrated against the Pope.
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in strengthening the papal army with new enlistments and works in the fortification of the walls of both the
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of the Holy Father is proof of the approval of the Holy Father of how the papal troops operated under my command”.
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