The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy–Venetia, 1814–1815When Austrian soldiers first set foot in Lombardy Venetia in October, 1813, they were greeted everywhere as liberators and friends. In the spring of 1815, when Joachim Murat's efforts to establish a united Italy ended in miserable failure and when the Habsburgs announced the main features of the regime they intended to establish in their Italian provinces, the Venetians were still strongly pro Austrian, but considerable anti Habsburg feeling had