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Giussepe Garibaldi was the “sword” symbol of the Risorgimento move, and faced bloodshed after bloodshed, wars and riots for the sake of uniting war-torn Italy. He formed a bloodthirsty guerrilla ‘camicie rosse’ (Red Shirts) which served under the Sardinia-Piedmont king Charles Albert, which was power which acted like a weapon, striving riotous war against the Austrians in Lombardy. Soon, he led his guerrilla to the city of Rome to support the Roman Republic formed by Giuseppe Mazzini and other republics in 1849. Garibaldi was a bullet fire for Rome in force of the brutal French dynasty, but as a complex adversity, he was forced to "settle” with the French emperors. He was able to flee from Rome with his 5000-men guerrilla, however, the line of retreat ascended up to the Austrian-ruled army. …show more content…

Fortunately, he managed to flee from the blood-ravaged war where he settled in the island of Caprera for a while. After a rush of drama, Garibaldi corrupted his political link with Mazzini, and had formed a conjunction with Victor Emmanuel II, the king of Italian region ‘Sardegna’ (Sardinia), and his cultured premier, Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour. In some time, Garibaldi was the heroic gemstone of Italy, after hundreds of Italians linked their mateship with the Sardinian monarch. This forced him and his “blood-for- nothing but-Italy” (“sangue per niente ma Italia”) inspired guerrilla to violate against the Alps in the year of 1859. In the war-drama year of 1860 he met with a turbulence of revolt and war against Sicily and formed a military-based democracy, just as he wished. Garibaldi soon conquered and warred of the Naples territory, which he then handed his conquests in force of Victor Emmanuel in 1861 and returned to his home region of

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