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Piratini Republic. The Redshirts (Italian: Camicie rosse or Giubbe rosse), also called the Red coats, are volunteers who followed the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns. The name derived from the colour of their shirts or loose-fitting blouses that the volunteers, usually called Garibaldini, wore in lieu of a uniform.
Garibaldi shirt and cap exhibited in the Siena town hall. A Garibaldi shirt (also called "Garibaldi jacket" or "Camicia rossa") was a woman's fashion, a red wool shirt named after the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi first popularized in 1860. It was the direct ancestor of the modern women's blouse. [notes 1][1][2][3]
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (/ ˌɡærɪˈbɑːldi / GARR-ib-AHL-dee, Italian: [dʒuˈzeppe ɡariˈbaldi] ⓘ; [note 1] 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of Italy's ...
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 three Italian national colours carved on the floor of the Palazzo delle Poste in Florence. After their appearance in Genoa on 21 August 1789, red, white and green gradually became part of the Italian collective imagination until they were represented in the most varied areas. The national colours of Italy are green, white, and red, [1 ...
History. Blackshirts with Benito Mussolini during the March on Rome, 28 October 1922. Parade of the Blackshirts on Corso Libertà in Bolzano, c. 1930. Blackshirts on Piazza di Siena [it] in Rome, 1936. The Blackshirts were established as the Squadrismo in 1919 and consisted of many disgruntled former soldiers.
The unification of Italy (Italian: Unità d'Italia, Italian: [uniˈta ddiˈtaːlja]), also known as the Risorgimento (/ r ɪ ˌ s ɔːr dʒ ɪ ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ /, Italian: [risordʒiˈmento]; lit. ' Resurgence ' ), was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian ...
Battle of Calatafimi. The Battle of Calatafimi was fought on the 15 May 1860 between Giuseppe Garibaldi 's Redshirts and the troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at Calatafimi, Sicily, as part of the Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: I Mille). The battle was the first of Garibaldi's victory during his invasion of Sicily in 1860 and saw ...