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Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1889)
Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi - 1889 Author:Giuseppe Garibaldi Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and prowess throughout this disastrous war, can remain indifferent spectators of your departure or to the void which your absence creates. . . . Accept as a most... more » imperfect homage these few words of gratitude for the immense services you have rendered to the liberty and independence of our country." The second is an extract from a long reply made by General Pacheco y Obes to the "(French) calumniators of Montevideo:" "General Garibaldi, the commander in Montevideo of the Italian Legion, which has never received a farthing (un sou) from the country which they defended, was ever the most obedient soldier, the most pronounced friend of order, the most ardent defender of liberty. And it is for liberty and civilization that Montevideo fights." III. 1848-1849. Garibaldi in Lombardy—Mazzini and Medici—The siee of Rome— Letters of Garibaldi to Mazzini—The fall of Rome. Despite his anxiety to be first on the field, Garibaldi and his legionaries only arrived in Italy in June, 1848, " the day after the battle." Owing to the reluctance of the Montevideans to part with him and his, all sorts of excuses had been invented " R5ponse aux detracteurs de Montevideo." Pacheco y Obes. Paris: 1849. and every imaginable obstacle thrown in his path. "He was beside himself with impatience and vexation," writes Cuneo. "'We shall arrive too late; we shall reach Italy when all is over; ours will be the succour of Pisa,' were the phrases ever on his lips." And he was right in a certain sense. When he and his little band arrived at Nice, and he went to Roverbella to offer his services to Charles Albert at the end of June, the Italian cause was virtually lost, yet even then "no one was traitor save destiny." The miracles effected by an unarmed populace, who in five days had driven 16,000 Austr...« less