Biography
Garibaldi led a small volunteer army from Sicily to Naples in 1860. That conquest made Italian unification possible under the Piedmontese crown.
Europe · 1801–1899
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Secondary uprising
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian Unification
Volunteer general whose 1860 expedition toppled the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Life
1807–1882
1807–1882
Place
Naples, Italy
Naples, Italy
Years
1848–1861
1848–1861
Map
40.8518, 14.2681
40.8518, 14.2681
Revolution
Theme. National unity · Popular war
Key figures. Giuseppe Mazzini, Count Cavour
Outcome. The south joined the new Kingdom of Italy.
Casualties. Campaign deaths were in the thousands.
Influence. The international model of the volunteer revolutionary.