I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.
Italian general, patriot and republican (1807–1882)
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.
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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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.
I am a Christian and I speak to Christians—I am a good Christian and speak to good Christians.
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