meeting garibaldi victor emmanuel 1860 Expedition of the Thousand Two Sicilies
Expedition of the Thousand (Italian Spedizione dei Mille) was a military campaign led by the revolutionary general Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, in which a force of volunteers defeated the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, leading to its dissolution and annexation by the Kingdom of Sardinia. The expedition set sail on May 6, 1860 from a rock in Quarto, a district of Genoa, on the ships Il Piemonte and Il Lombardo steamers, acquired from Fauché, a fellow freemason of Garibaldi. The corps was formed by some thousand volunteers (Italian: Mille, whence the name, practically all northern Italians), including a woman After a short stop at the promontory of Talamone (May 7), near the city of Orbetello in southern Tuscany, for a supply of water and weapons from Piedmontese troops, they directed the vessels to Sicily. The ships landed at Marsala, on the westernmost point of Sicily, on May 11, with the help of British ships present in the harbour to deter the Bourbon ships. The Lombardo was attacked and sunk only after the disembarkment had been completed, while the Piemonte was captured. The landing had been preceded by the arrival of Francesco Crispi and others, who had the task of gaining the support of the locals for the volunteers. On May 14, at Salemi, Garibaldi announced that he was assuming dictatorship over Sicily in the name of King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia. After the annexation of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchies of Modena and Parma and the Romagna to Piedmont in March 1860, Italian nationalists set their sights on the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which comprised all of southern Italy and Sicily, as the next step in their planned unification of Italy. In 1860 Garibaldi, already the most famous Italian revolutionary leader, was in Genoa planning an expedition against Sicily and Naples, with the covert support of Great Britain. The latter was worried by the approaches of the Neapolitans towards the Russian Empire in the latter's attempt to open its wa
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