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    The Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: Spedizione dei Mille) was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers...
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  • magazine Thousand (comics), a Marvel Comics character "Thousand" (song), a song by Moby The Thousand (I Mille), the volunteers in the Expedition of the Thousand...
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    into the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, after its defeat in the Expedition of the Thousand. Ironically, in the final phase of the Expedition of the Thousand...
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    participation of the Sardinian army in the Expedition of the Thousand. In reaction, Spain and the Russian Empire interrupted diplomatic relations with the Kingdom...
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    of Naples into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. From the 1282 Sicilian Vespers until the 1860 Expedition of the Thousand, Sicily was ruled by Aragon...
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    Carmine Crocco (category Italian people of the Italian unification)
    the woods between Monticchio and Lagopesole. At the same time Giuseppe Garibaldi was launching his Expedition of the Thousand, and the Kingdom of the...
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    Redshirts (Italy) (category Military units and formations of Italy)
    Redshirts in the Expedition of the Thousand of 1860, which concluded with the annexation of Sicily, Southern Italy, Marche and Umbria to the Kingdom of Sardinia...
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    became part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, to then be annexed to the unified Kingdom of Italy after the Expedition of the Thousand. Apulia's coastline...
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    the Second Italian War of Independence, resulting in liberating Lombardy from Austrian rule. Victor Emmanuel supported the Expedition of the Thousand...
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    acquisition of Lombardy. The following year, 1860, he led the Expedition of the Thousand on behalf of, and with the consent of, Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia...
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    the events of the War of the Polish Succession. The army collapsed during the Expedition of the Thousand. The Real Marina was the naval forces of the...
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    Menotti Garibaldi (category Members of the Expedition of the Thousand)
    took part in the Expedition of the Thousand against the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in 1860, during which he was wounded at the Battle of Calatafimi. In...
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  • unit within the royal army. The Expedition of the Thousand was entirely a people's war, with Garibaldi being its central figure. In the Third Independence...
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    Independence and the Expedition of the Thousand, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the two-year period 1859–60, the goal of the unification of Italy had been...
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    of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, before annexation to the unified Kingdom of Italy (proclaimed in 1861) after the 1860 Expedition of the Thousand....
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    negotiated Piedmont's way through the Crimean War, the Second Italian War of Independence, and Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand, managing to manoeuvre Piedmont...
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  • Albanese (1834–1889), Italian surgeon, a member of the Expedition of the Thousand and close friend of Garibaldi Francesco Albanese (1912–2005), Italian...
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  • three Wars of Italian Independence against the Habsburg Austrians in the north, the Expedition of the Thousand against the Spanish Bourbons in the south,...
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    Oreste Baratieri (category Members of the Expedition of the Thousand)
    served during the Expedition of the Thousand from 1860 to 1861. Following the unification of Italy, Baratieri did fight in the Battle of Mentana (1867)...
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    Italy (redirect from The Italian republic)
    of political and territorial divisions, Italy was almost entirely unified in 1861, following wars of independence and the Expedition of the Thousand,...
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    the Risorgimento: the celebratory Garibaldi, in which he reconstructs the expedition of the Thousand, and the more intimate Vanina Vanini, set in the...
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    Independence and the Expedition of the Thousand. Along with the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy, it formed the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861...
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    Quarto dei Mille (category Quartieri of Genoa)
    the 1860 Expedition of the Thousand (Garibaldi's volunteer force), who embarked for Sicily there. In 1926 it was integrated into the municipality of Genoa...
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    to govern the territory of Sicily during the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860. It governed in opposition to the Bourbons of Naples. On 14 May 1860 in...
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    who was born in the neighbouring Nice (then part of the Sardinian state), started his Expedition of the Thousand on the evening of 5 May 1860 from a...
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    before the annexation of the United Provinces of Central Italy The Kingdom of Italy in 1861, after the Expedition of the Thousand The Kingdom of Italy...
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    Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand had conquered Sicily and much of southern Italy with a startling speed, entering Naples on the 7 September while...
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    over the next three weeks to cross the Straits of Messina. Risorgimento Expedition of the Thousand Schneid, Frederick (2012). The Second War of Italian...
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    had been killed, making their victory irrelevant and the expedition a failure. The Ten Thousand found themselves far from home with no food, no employer...
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    Rodney Mundy (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    Mediterranean Fleet and, in May 1860, in the Expedition of the Thousand, was present in Palermo, Sicily when Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian general and politician...
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