Editing Charles Felix of Sardinia (section)

=== Foreign policy ===
[[File:Ritratto di Carlo Felice di Savoia.jpg|thumb|right|Portrait of King Charles Felix, {{circa|1825}}]]
{{see also|Battle of Tripoli (1825)}}
Theoretically, Charles Felix was committed to the territorial expansion of his realm, but he did not maintain any expansionist illusions and preferred to concentrate on the economic and commercial interests of his realm.<ref>F. Lemmi, ''La politica estera di Carlo Alberto nei suoi primi anni di regno'', Firenze 1928, p. 93.</ref><ref>Bianchi, Storia della Diplomazia, II, p.77.</ref> Thus in 1821, with the help of the Austrians and English, he signed an advantageous trade agreement with the [[Sublime Porte]].

In September 1825, in order to force the [[Bey of Tripoli]] to observe the treaty established with him in 1816 under English auspices, and to respect Sardinian ships sailing along the coast of North Africa, he launched a demonstration of force. Towards the end of the month, two frigates (''Commercio'' and ''Cristina''), a corvette (''Tritone'') and a brig (''Nereide'') under the command of captain [[Francesco Sivori]], appeared off the coast of Tripoli. After a final attempt to pressure the Bey diplomatically, ten Sardinian longboats sailed into the harbour on the night of 27 September and set fire to a Tripolitanian brig and two schooners, routing or killing the Tripolitanian troops. This forced the Bey to take a more conciliatory approach.<ref>Account from Am. Des Geneys, ''Arch. di Stato di Torino''</ref>

In 1828, he ended the construction of a bridge over the River Ticino at [[Boffalora sopra Ticino|Boffalora]], which had been begun by his brother Victor Emmanuel I some years earlier as a result of a treaty with the Emperor of Austria, who controlled the other side of the river as part of the [[Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia]].