. Battles of the nineteenth century . GIUSEPPE (or JOSEPH) GARIBALDIwas for many j-ears the most pic-turesque and interesting figure inall Europe. He might be calledthe William Wallace, or the William Tell, ofItaly. His name (which is still a commonenough one in Genoa among all ranks of life)is said to have been a corruption of Garibaldo, Bold in War. At any rate, a warlikestar presided over his birth (at Nice in 1807),for he first saw the light in the very housewhere, forty 3-ears before, Massena, one of theGreat Napoleons greatest generals, was born. At the time of his birth his native c
. Battles of the nineteenth century . GIUSEPPE (or JOSEPH) GARIBALDIwas for many j-ears the most pic-turesque and interesting figure inall Europe. He might be calledthe William Wallace, or the William Tell, ofItaly. His name (which is still a commonenough one in Genoa among all ranks of life)is said to have been a corruption of Garibaldo, Bold in War. At any rate, a warlikestar presided over his birth (at Nice in 1807),for he first saw the light in the very housewhere, forty 3-ears before, Massena, one of theGreat Napoleons greatest generals, was born. At the time of his birth his native country—Italy—was in a woful state of disunion, andmuch of it was under the yoke of the foreigner—the Austrians in particular. It was cut upmto several conflicting monarchies ; while thePope, the spiritual head of the Roman Church,also claimed—and had his claim allowed—to betemporal sovereign of Rome. But as the cen-tury grew older, the Italian people began to bestirred with a deep desire for national unity,without which the
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