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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Italian general, patriot and republican (1807–1882)

  • Fame73.4
  • Momentum0.1
  • France rank#213
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  • Fame73.4
  • Momentum0.1
  • France rank#213
  • Wikipedia125.2K
Lived 1807–1882, aged 75France
FranceFranceRSPEPoliticiansPolitician
  • Wikipedia
    111 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in France
    #213
    Politicians
  • Era
    1807–1882
    Aged 75
  • Awards
    4
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-09-06

He unified a fractured peninsula with a thousand volunteers in red shirts, turned guerrilla warfare learned in South American exile into the lever that cracked open a kingdom, and died having subordinated every republican ideal he held to the single fact of Italy's existence.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi was born 4 July 1807, follower of nationalist Mazzini and the Young Italy movement's republican vision. Sentenced to death after an 1834 uprising in Piedmont, he fled to South America for 14 years of exile—joining Brazilian Ragamuffins fighting for the Riograndense Republic, raising his Redshirt force in Uruguay's civil war, learning the guerrilla methods he'd carry home. He returned in 1848 and the provisional Milan government made him general; by 1849 he was General of the Roman Republic. In 1859 his Hunters of the Alps seized Varese, Como, and Lombardy's cities to the Sou…

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Giuseppe Garibaldi
saidundated
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.
— From G. M. Trevelyan, Garibaldi's Defense of the Roman Republic [1907-1911]
Giuseppe Garibaldi
saidundated
I am a Christian and I speak to Christians—I am a good Christian and speak to good Christians.
— https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/mar/22/excerpts-giuseppe-garibaldi-pope/
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Historical28.5
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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