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Showing posts with label Expedition of the Thousand. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Expedition of the Thousand. Show all posts

10 September 2022

The wedding of Stefano Türr and Adelina Bonaparte

Hungarian General married Napoleon’s beautiful great niece Türr switched sides after witnessing Austrian cruelty against Italian troops The ...

10 April 2019

Agostino Bertani – physician and politician

Compassionate doctor was Garibaldi’s friend and strategist Agostino Bertani was a hero for tending to the wounds of Garibaldi's so...

5 June 2018

Carmine Crocco - soldier and brigand

Bandit seen by peasants as Italy’s ‘Robin Hood’ Carmine Crocco nurtured a hatred for people of wealth and nobility Carmine Crocco, wh...

2 June 2017

The death of Giuseppe Garibaldi

Unification hero spent last days on his island off Sardinia The revolutionary general Giuseppe Garibaldi The Italian revolutionary ...

5 May 2017

The Expedition of the Thousand

Garibaldi's Spedizione dei Mille launched from Genoa Giuseppe Garibaldi had the support of King Victor Emmanuel II The Expedit...

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