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Some interest attaches to the fortifications, monuments, and graveyards of the island, on account of the British occupation. The monument recording the English victory is in the English cemetery; in the other is a memorial to those who died in the Italo-Austrian fight.
The real break, which made war inevitable, came on May 3 when Baron Sonnino sent to Vienna a formal denunciation of the Italo-Austrian alliance.
The notes exchanged in this period emphasized particularly Articles III, IV, and VII of the Alliance, and since these portions of the treaty were the basis of subsequent negotiations leading up to the final severance of Italo-Austrian relations, their text may be set down here: "III. In case one or two of the high contracting parties, without direct provocation on their part, should be attacked by one or more of the great powers not signatory of the present treaty, and should become involved in a war with them, the casus foederis would arise simultaneously for all the high contracting parties.
It is probable that by to-morrow I shall be able to write you more about the Italo-Austrian war of 1866. GONZAGA, July 9, 1866. I write you from a villa, only a mile distant from Gonzaga, belonging to the family of the Counts Arrivabene of Mantua.
It is probable that by to-morrow I shall be able to write you more about the Italo-Austrian war of 1866. GONZAGA, July 9, 1866. I write you from a villa, only a mile distant from Gonzaga, belonging to the family of the Counts Arrivabene of Mantua.
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