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was the st general on the fiel he could have held his ition for r ouping the following day. But Franz J fs heart was broken by the f­ fering he had en, and he ordered a retreat France could have cut the re­ treat to pi but the Frenc en were t tired to move. th Na leon and Franz J f were eager to strike a quick r in and put the a nies of the battlefield out of their min F nz J f ve up m rdy only, not Venetia, which made Cavour furious, but there was not ng he couald do. But in the long run Piedmont nefited more than F nce, as Italy ws eventually united under Piedmont's l dership. Na leon , on the other hand, gan to think he was invincible, but he would n find out that he wasn't And Austria had l t a ma r territory, with the w ful state of its military revealed for all the world to
B marck and ia
As a result of the defeat at lferino, Franz J f felt that he must make conce ions to the li rals at home to avoid their re lling at t s time of national crisi The Em ror t up a parliament with l ted w­ er but with the right to interfere the budget A ut the only thing the parliament did was to cut down military ex nditur a rious mistak Franz J f al had renewed r nal problems as Sisi suffered the first of a ries of breakdowns and gan the compulsive traveling which would characteri the r t of her life. Franz J f wrote her constantly, his love for her never flag ng despite its immen drain on his emotional re­ urce
Now a new enemy was emergin In 1 1 Otto von Bismarck came chancellor of Prusis a Bismarck was an ex rt diplomat but it emed as if his only moral principle was that anything was stified long as it ad­ vanced the cau of Pru ia Immediately u n coming to wer he n strengthening the army. He purcha d the new breech-l ding rifle which made ible more rapid fire. The Austrian army could not purcha the new rifle cau of budget cuts by parliament Bismarck i ored Pru ia's parliament and t up what was in ct ab lute rule. Franz J f, on the contrary, tried to encourage l al gove ment but in Hungary at least, the li ral leaders-who pretended to conce ed for the rights of the ple-frustrated his effort
Bismarck's long term goal was the unification of the German states under Pru ia To achieve this goal, he had to defeat Austria, since many of th states were in the Empire. He enlisted Piedmont on his side with the promi of Venetia and then pr eeded to maneuver Franz J f into war.