Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy

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Henty George Alfred. Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. AWAITING THE ATTACK

CHAPTER II. A DESPERATE DEFENCE

CHAPTER III. TROUBLES

CHAPTER IV. A SUDDEN SUMMONS

CHAPTER V. ON THE WAY

CHAPTER VI. THE VILLA SPINOLA

CHAPTER VII. THE EXPEDITION SAILS

CHAPTER VIII. PALERMO

CHAPTER IX. HARD FIGHTING

CHAPTER X. WITH BIXIO

CHAPTER XI. A HAZARDOUS EXPEDITION

CHAPTER XII. AN AMBUSCADE

CHAPTER XIII. ACROSS THE STRAITS

CHAPTER XIV. A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER XV. THE ADVANCE FROM REGGIO

CHAPTER XVI. NAPLES

CHAPTER XVII. THE BATTLE OF THE VOLTURNO

CHAPTER XVIII. CAPUA

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ON April 29th, 1849, two men were seated in a room whose open windows commanded a view down the Tiber. A sound of confused uproar rose from the city.

“I am afraid, Leonard,” the elder of the two men said, “that the crisis is at hand. The news that the French are landing to-day at Civita Vecchia is ominous indeed. It is true that Oudïnot has sent a message saying that the flag he has hoisted is that of peace and order. The people will not believe that he comes as an enemy; but, for my part, I have no doubt of it.”

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For a time Garibaldi’s following alone maintained the war. Carrying on a guerilla warfare, he, with fifteen hundred men, was surrounded by five thousand Austrians, but he effected a marvellous retreat, and retired into Switzerland. Here he was taken ill, and was forced to rest for some months. He then went to Genoa. The extraordinary skill and bravery which he had shown during the campaign induced the King of Sardinia to offer him the rank of general in his army, that being the grade that he had held in Monte Video. But Garibaldi refused, and with two hundred and fifty volunteers started for Venice, which was besieged by the Austrians. On hearing, however, of the rising in Rome and the flight of the Pope – who had now abandoned his liberal professions, and had thrown himself into the hands of Austria – Garibaldi changed his course, and his ranks being swollen as he marched along, he arrived at Rome at the head of fifteen hundred men. Here he met his comrade in the struggle at Rio and Monte Video.

During his six years’ residence in Rome Captain Percival had imbibed that hatred of the Austrians and detestation of the despotisms under which the Italian States groaned, that was felt by all with whom he came in contact, his father-in-law, Professor Forli, being one of the leaders of the liberal party in Rome. His wife, too, was an enthusiast in the cause; and although he felt no sympathy whatever with Mazzini and the revolutionary party, he was, even before the arrival of Garibaldi, resolved to take up arms should Rome be attacked. The presence of Garibaldi still further confirmed this resolution; but as soon as he heard that a French expedition had set sail, he had insisted that his wife and child should leave the city, for he by no means shared the general belief that the French were coming as allies. Her mother accompanied her to Leghorn, for the professor was as anxious as Percival that his wife and daughter should be in a place of safety.

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