Timeline for Has any country won a war, but lost a non-trivial portion of its territory?
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| Mar 6, 2023 at 16:48 | comment | added | Spencer | Also, Savoy(Piedmont) was in the winning coalition of the War of the Quadruple Alliance but had to give up Sicily (they got Sardinia as a consolation prize) | |
| May 31, 2019 at 21:51 | comment | added | C Monsour | Piedmont didn't lose those territories to France as a result of the war. It had agreed to give them to France before the war started, in return for French assistance. So not sure this is a good example. | |
| Dec 12, 2015 at 1:55 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | On thing not mentioned here was that S-P's tactic of ceeding territory full of Italian-speakers (and particularly Garabaldi's own hometown) to France to get help with Italian unification so enraged General Giuseppe Garibaldi that he took the next opportunity he saw to liberate the south of the peninsula himself, which is what set off the chain of events that completed the unification of Italy. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 15:11 | comment | added | Tom Au | @LennartRegebro: I gave one example. There are surely others. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 11:27 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | On a related note, Sweden was attacked by Denmark and Russia, and won the war against Denmark by giving Finland to Russia, so that they would step down, leaving Sweden only to worry about the Danish army, which it promptly defeated. ;-) Obviously the real winner is Russia. And in your case, the real winner is France. But yeah, sure, I guess that's as close as it gets. | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 18:21 | history | edited | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2015 at 18:21 | comment | added | Tom Au | @hetajr: Yes, see the link. | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 18:19 | comment | added | user15614 | I understeand that Piedmont got Lombardy? | |
| Dec 9, 2015 at 18:15 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |