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Title: Garibaldi's defence of the Roman Republic
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Subjects: Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882 Rome (Italy) -- History Revolution, 1848-1849
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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public.Garibaldi always considered this decree to be in forceduring the next twenty years of papal usurpation. In i860, Vccchi, ii. 296 ; Koclinan^ ii. 233, 234 ; Locv. i. 263- 267 ; Galncssi, iii.467, 468. Gabussi, who saw and heard all at close fjuarlers, and look notesof Garibaldis speech, denies that Garibaldi declared that if he himself had beenDictator things would have y;one better with the Republic. According toGabusbi, Garibaldi only said, errors have been committed, but it is not a timefor recrimination. Even that might well have been left unsaid. - Mazzini, v. 209-214. I see nothing inconsistent in Mazzinis refusal togo out with Garibaldi, after the Assembly had refused to adopt the plan of ageneral exodus of the Government. If Mazzini had gone with Garibaldi merelyas a private individual, there would have been little advantage as a matter ofprinciple, and the strained relations with Garibaldi would have been a constantsource of irritation to both men, and to the army also.
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GARIBALDIS DESPERATE PROJECT 229 1862, and 1867, in the expeditions that ended at Naples,at Aspromonte, and at Mentana, he still regarded himselfas a Roman general-in-chief, by a vote never supersededuntil the people chose Victor Emmanuel as their king. Hewas, therefore, always ready to act on occasion, as onehaving authority in any part of the Roman Republic stillunredeemed by Italy.^ As the years went by, and old agedrew on, the office which he still held was ever present tohis mind, at once as a legal formula binding him over tobreak the peace, and as a mystical summons to deliverRome. The French troops were to make their entry on July 1.Garibaldi had little left to do on the ist and 2nd, exceptto hurry on his own departure. Every man was sup-posed to have free choice to go with the General or to stay.but the officers of most of the old papal regiments usedpressure to keep back those under their command, andmany soldiers, including some of Garibaldis own Legion,were, against the wi

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