History of Sardinia 23 February 1793, Domenico Millelire, in command of the Sardinian fleet, defeated near the Maddalena archipelago the fleets of the French Republic, which was included with the rank of lieutenant, the young and future Emperor of France Napoleon Bonaparte. Millelire received the first Gold Medal of Military Valor of the Italian Navy. In the same month, Sardinians stopped the attempted French landing on the beach of Quartu Sant'Elena, near the Capital of Cagliari. Because of these successes, the representatives of nobility and clergy ("Stamenti") formulated five requests addressed to the King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia in order to have
Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia The Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia (, also called "Parlamento Subalpino") was the bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia. It was established in 1848 by the Albertine Statute and was dissolved in 1861, to be succeeded by the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy. It is thus the ultimate ancestor of the modern Parliament of Italy. There were two chambers: Joint sessions of the Parliament, for solemn occasions like the "speech from the crown" ("discorso della corona"), were held at the Palazzo Carignano, for space reasons. The two chambers were theoretically equal