Garabaldi was a lifelong revolutionary who was born in Nice in 1807. In 1833 he decided to join Young Italy and met Mazzini in Genoa where he took a vow to dedicate his life to freeing Italy from Austrian tyranny.
In February 1834, he took part in a failed revolt in Piedmont and fled abroad. He was sentenced to death in his absence and he ended up in South America and until 1846 fought for revolutionaries in Brazil and Uruguay where he became a skillful guerrilla fighter. He returned home after the outbreak of the Sicilian revolt.
An offer to help to Charles Albert was turned down so Garibaldi led volunteers to support the provisional government in Milan. After the Piedmontese defeat at Novara Garibaldi went to the defence of the Roman Republic and took command of its army.
In April 1860 Garabaldi heard of a Mazzini inspired revolt in Sicily and set sail with his '1000' and liberated the island. From there he crossed into Naples and defeated their forces and marched towards the Papal states. Here he was thwarted by Cavour and Garabaldi surrendered his conquests to Victor Emmanuel at Teano in October 1860.
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