What was Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand?

Garibaldi and the Thousand

La spedizione dei Mille

11 May 1860. On the night of 5–6 May 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa, with about a thousand volunteers in red shirts on two steamships, and on 11 May…

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On the night of 5–6 May 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa, with about a thousand volunteers in red shirts on two steamships, and on 11 May landed at Marsala in Sicily. With Sicilian rebels joining them, they beat the Bourbon army at Calatafimi, took Palermo and crossed to the mainland, entering Naples in September. On 26 October Garibaldi met King Victor Emmanuel II near Teano and handed over the conquered south, which plebiscites had just voted to join the new kingdom.

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Garibaldi è partito da Quarto con circa mille volontari.

Garibaldi set off from Quarto with about a thousand volunteers.

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