...regains control of Sicily. The heavy bombardment…
May 1848 CE
...regains control of Sicily.
The heavy bombardment of Sicilian cities in this campaign gains him the name of “King Bomba”,while his harsh treatment of the participants in the revolts will earn him the dislike of many Europeans (notably of the future British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, who will denounce Ferdinand's regime as “the negation of God erected into a system of government”.)