Garibaldi's Defence Of The Roman Republic

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One of the rare English-language works on the Italian unification of the 19th century, this is also a remarkable historical work for the proud bias of its author, English historian GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN (1876-1962). Of the three books he wrote devoted to the Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi-this is the first-Trevelyan later acknowledged, "Without bias, I should never have written them at all. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, ...
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One of the rare English-language works on the Italian unification of the 19th century, this is also a remarkable historical work for the proud bias of its author, English historian GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN (1876-1962). Of the three books he wrote devoted to the Italian national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi-this is the first-Trevelyan later acknowledged, "Without bias, I should never have written them at all. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared."

First published in 1907, this volume details Garibaldi's service and campaigns in the Italian revolutions of 1849-9, from the formation of Garibaldi's legion in the wake of the political unrest that led to the creation of the Roman Republic through his defense of the city of Rome against French troops to Garibaldi's retreat and eventual exile.

This rare volume of little-known history will thrill military buffs and students of 19th century Europe alike.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781605204734
  • Publisher: Cosimo
  • Publication date: 12/1/2008
  • Pages: 436
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.97 (d)

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G r A N D Corrient/e Part of SOUTH AMERICA (to illustrate Chapters I and II) Scale, i: 11,000,000 English Miles ao 40 60 80100 Emerr Walker sc. BUCCANEER AND GUERILLA 21 fishing boat, and therein set out with a dozen companions to wage war alone against the giant Empire of Brazil, ' the first to unfurl on those southern coasts the Republican banner of Rio Grande, a banner of freedom.'l Well was the little boat called Mazzini. But they soon changed it for a larger ship which they had captured, and continued the struggle with ever-increasing success. Gradually Garibaldi's warfare became amphibious, and before long, celebrated as he was for his exploits at sea, he was yet more celebrated as a guerilla chief, leading bodies of a few hundred, sometimes a few thousand men, across the vast upland plains and forests and river gorges of the Continent, that lay between the Atlantic and the Parana River. The cavalry, who were often the more numerous arm, were natives of the wilderness, horsemen born and bred, and magnificently mounted ; hardy and resourceful as the Boers, they had more dash, and liked close quarters. Their favourite weapon was the lance; though many used the sabre, together with the lasso or the bolas, hunting the enemy and casting at him, as they had learnt to do in pursuit of the swift-footed ostrich.2 Otherwise the warfare must in many respects have resembled the warfare on the veldt. It was necessary to traverse enormous distances across country, far from the haunts of man; to need no food but the cattle which the troops drove with them and slaughtered at meal time, roasting the flesh Homerically on green spits ;3 yet always to know the whereabouts and strength ofthe enemy, to fall on him when he was weaker, and when he was stronger to vanish...
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