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Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (/ ˌ ɡ ær ɪ ˈ b ɑː l d i / GARR-ib-AHL-dee, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ɡariˈbaldi] ⓘ; [note 1] 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.
The red shirts were started by Giuseppe Garibaldi. During his years of exile, Garibaldi was involved in a military action in Uruguay. In 1843, he there originally used red shirts from a stock destined for slaughterhouse workers in Buenos Aires. Later, he spent time in private retirement in New York City. Both places have been claimed as the ...
The Dictatorship of Garibaldi or Dictatorial Government of Sicily was the provisional executive that Giuseppe Garibaldi appointed to govern the territory of Sicily during the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860. It governed in opposition to the Bourbons of Naples. The word dictator did not, at this time, always imply a despotic ruler.
The Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: Spedizione dei Mille) was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto al Mare near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by the Spanish House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. [3]
The Army was organized into four brigades, "the first commanded by General Bossack, the second by Colonel Delpeck… and the third by Menotti [Garibaldi, Giuseppe's son]." [4] The fourth brigade was under the command of Ricciotti Garibaldi, another of Giuseppe's sons. The chief of staff for the Army of the Vosges was General Bordone, the man ...
The Battle of Treponti, also known as Battle of Castenedolo, took place on 15 June 1859, during the Second Italian War of Independence.The encounter opposed the Austrians led by Field Marshal Karl von Urban and the Sardinians commanded by Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, celebrated as one of the greatest generals of modern times [57] and as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe, [58] who commanded and fought in many military campaigns that led to the unification of Italy
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian revolutionary born in 1807 in Nice (now in France, but then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia).One of the fathers of unified Italy, he was also a general in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.