The world war : $b a history of the nations and empires involved and a study of the events culminating in the great conflictMarshall, Logan
History
The world war : $b a history of the nations and empires involved and a study of the events culminating in the great conflict
Marshall, Logan
Europe -- History -- 1789-1900; Europe -- History -- 1871-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes
While Mazzini was thus working with his pen, his compatriot, Giuseppe
Garibaldi, was working as earnestly with his sword. This daring
soldier, a native of Nice and reared to a life on the sea, was banished
as a revolutionist in 1834, and the succeeding fourteen years of his
life were largely spent in South America, in whose wars he played a
leading part.
The revolution of 1848 opened Italy to these two patriots, and they
hastened to return; Garibaldi to offer his services to Charles Albert
of Sardinia, by whom, however, he was treated with coldness and
distrust. Mazzini, after founding the Roman republic in 1849, called
upon Garibaldi to come to its defense, and the latter displayed the
greatest heroism in the contest against the Neapolitan and French
invaders. He escaped from Rome on its capture by the French, and, after
many desperate conflicts and adventures with the Austrians, was again
driven into exile, and in 1850 became a resident of New York. For some
time he worked in a manufactory of candles on Staten Island, and
afterwards made several voyages on the Pacific.
The war in 1859 of Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel against the
Austrians in Lombardy opened a new and promising channel for the
devotion of Garibaldi to his native land. Being appointed major-general
and commissioned to raise a volunteer corps, he organized the hardy
body of mountaineers called the “Hunters of the Alps,” and with them
performed prodigies or valor on the plains of Lombardy, winning
victories over the Austrians at Varese, Como and other places. In his
ranks was his fellow-patriot Mazzini.
The success of the French and Sardinians in Lombardy during this war
stirred Italy to its center. The grand duke of Tuscany fled to Austria.
The duchess or Parma sought refuge in Switzerland. The duke of Modena
found shelter in the Austrian camp. Everywhere the brood of tyrants
took to flight. Bologna threw off its allegiance to the pope, and
proclaimed the king of Sardinia dictator. Several other towns in the
States of the Church, did the same. In the terms of the truce between
Louis Napoleon and Francis Joseph the rulers of these realms were to
resume their power if the people would permit. But the people would not
permit, and these minor states were all annexed to Sardinia, which
country was greatly expanded as a result of the war.
CAVOUR THE STATESMAN
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