Garibaldi: Expedition of the Thousand | Unifying Italy | Extra History | Part 5

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  @extrahistory · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @joshuaescopete · 2 years ago (edited)

  For anyone wondering what the terms Garibaldi and Lincoln couldn’t agree on were: Garibaldi wanted the US government to pronounce that the aim of the Civil War was to abolish slavery, and he wanted to be named commander-in-chief of all union forces. Lincoln wasn’t ready to make such a bold statement so early into the conflict and the President wasn’t going to relinquish control of the entire Union army. Garibaldi did applaud Lincoln in 1863 when he made the Emancipation Proclamation and when the 13th amendment passed in congress, extinguishing slavery.

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  @johanroyce6324 · 2 years ago

  You should mention how Garibaldi allowed San Marino to remain independent because they gave him refuge

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  @lucky_lynx7867 · 2 years ago

  “Their throwing rocks! They’re almost out of ammunition!!!”<br><br>That line got me laughing

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  @bthsr7113 · 2 years ago

  &quot;inspired the creation of the Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions&quot;<br>Yeah, I&apos;m going to need an episode on this. Like, it really sounds as if it&apos;s a major gap in common historical knowledge.

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  @Tulkash01 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact 01: when Garibaldi visited London he was immensely popular. So much in fact that queen Victoria recorded the fact with irritation in her diary, wondering why the British people were head over heels for a socialist revolutionary and adventurer like Garibaldi…😂

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  @ElGPresidente · 2 years ago

  One note about the dictactorship of Garibaldi:<br>Dictator was a antient roman institution in case of emergency, so the title wasn&apos;t seen as bad because it&apos;s like a people dictatorship and not a monarchy. <br>He also decide to become a Dictator after the fail roman republic adventure he had got. <br>Also about Lincon: Garibaldi wanted only one thing: that Lincon declare this war against slavery, at that time Lincon said no.

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  @abcdef27669 · 2 years ago (edited)

  That &quot;ability&quot; of Garibaldi surviving from gunshots was probably real: Remember that he used a Gaucho-style poncho, which is thicker than a regular shirt, and a regular gun at the time wasn&apos;t that powerful in comparison with what we have today, at least from a greater distance.<br><br>There is a similar story about Manuel Luis Osório, a general from the Imperial Army of Brazil who fought during the Ragamuffin War and the War of Triple Alliance, saying that he always shaked his poncho after a battle, removing bullets from it.

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  @craigkdillon · 2 years ago

  We NEED an HBO mini-series on Garibaldi. &nbsp;<br>Like a Greek God, he was gifted, great, and flawed.

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  @Tulkash01 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact 3: during the Franco Prussian war Garibaldi elected to fight for France despite France having fought against him in 1848. He did so because at the time France was a republic while Prussia was a monarchy. When the Prussian army overwhelmed the French the only French troops troops who managed to capture a Prussian standard were under the command of Garibaldi. When the Prussian left having &nbsp;dictated their terms Garibaldi was elected in the French parliament. He didn’t last long and went back to Italy. The French political class didn’t like him very much.<br><br>Edit: corrections

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  @funakfunak2740 · 2 years ago

  Good to see that the time-honored roman tradition of just conjuring up armies out of nowhere was still alive and kicking.

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  @davidjennings2179 · 2 years ago

  Fun fact - Garibaldi was so popular with the British, they named a biscuit after him (high praise for anyone who knows British culture).

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