| Naval operations of the First Italian War of Independence | |||||||||
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| Part of the Revolutions of 1848 and Unification of Italy | |||||||||
 The Austrian frigate Venere attacked by a Venetian fireship | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
.svg){kind=small} Giuseppe Albini (Sardinia) Raffaele de Cosa (Sicily).svg){kind=small} .svg){kind=small} Alessandro Cialdi (Papal States/ Roman Republic) |
 Ferenc GyulayLudwig von KudriaffskyHans Birch Dahlerup | ||||||||
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The naval operations of the First Italian War of Independence took place between April 1848 and August 1849 and involved the Austrian Empire and the forces opposing it from the Republic of San Marco, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Papal States and the Roman Republic. The conflict took place in the northern Adriatic Sea, mostly off the ports of Venice and Trieste. No major naval battles were fought, and much of the war was an ongoing stalemate between fleets lacking the superiority over each other to strike a decisive blow against the enemy.