 With Napoleon’s fall, the Congress of Vienna established the entrance of Valeggio in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, an Austrian Empire dependence.During the Italian Unification (the 'Risorgimento'), the town was a protagonist of the battles of the First, Second and Third Italian War of Independence, which led to the creation of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy.In the Second World War the Monte Borghetto was bombarded (4 December 1944, the true aim was the Visconti Bridge); on 14 February 1944, an American aircraft B-17 fell during a dogfight in the locality of Vanoni-Remelli, causing the death of both a civilian - who was working in the fields near a water canal - and pilot Harold Arthur Bond Jr.