Expedition of the Thousand, Italy, 1860
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Name (Hebrew)
המסע אלף, איטליה, 1860
Name (Latin)
Expedition of the Thousand, Italy, 1860
Name (Arabic)
حملة الألف، 1860
Other forms of name
Sicilian Expedition of Garibaldi and the Thousand, Italy, 1860
Spedizione dei Mille, Italy, 1860
Thousand, Expedition of the, Italy, 1860
See Also From tracing place name
Italy
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q228284
Library of congress:
sh2010001699
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 2009520426: Rebagliati, F. Garibaldi Guard-Garibaldi Legion, 2008:(Spedizione dei Mille)
- Britannica online, Jan. 29, 2010:(under Thousand, Expedition of the, Spedizione dei Mille. Campaign undertaken in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi that overthrew the Bourbon Kingom of the Two Sicilies and permitted the union of Southern Italy and Sicily with the North. Garibaldi departed from Quarto (near Genoa) with more than 1,000 men on the night of May 5-6, 1860. He landed in Marsala on May 11, and after the Battle of Milazzo on July 20 controlled all of Sicily except Messina. On Aug. 29 Garibaldi landed in Calabria and advanced to Naples as the Bourbon rule collapsed. On Oct. 1-2, he defeated regrouped forces of King Francis at the Volturno River. Garibaldi met with Victor Emmanuel on Oct. 26 and relinquished his dictatorship over the South into the king's hands)
- Trevelyan, G.M. Garibaldi and the Thousand, 1979:p. 391-393 (index entry: Sicilian expedition of Garibaldi and the Thousand; guide words at heads of index columns: Sicilian expedition)
- LC database, Jan. 29, 2010:(Expedition of the Thousand, Italy, 1860; Spedizione dei Mille (1860))