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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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n exile, he took service under the infant Republicof Rio Grande do Sul, which was then beginning a strugglefor independence against the Brazilian Empire.- As theRepublicans had not yet got a ship at sea, the appealtouched Garibaldis sympathies to the quick, and so in histhirtieth year, for the first time in his life, he turned hishand to war, as a buccaneer with letters of marque fromthe rebel govermnent. He and his friend Rossetti armed a old patois of ihe lagoons of Genoa. It affected Mazzini, to whom it broughtback scenes of their early career, when the inspiration of Italian freedom firstbegan.—Holyoakc, i. 239. GiU7-zoni, ii. 352, 360. Cuncoy iS ; Episiolario, 3. A strong Spanish element existed in that province (Rio Grande), and itwas not disposed to settle down quietly under Portuguese Imperialism, whentheir co-patiiots a few miles farther south (in Uruguay) were enjoying Republicaninstitutions.—Winniitgton-Iii^iani, 93. Brazil conqucicd, after a long andexhaustin; oUju^Ic.
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BUCCANEER AND GUERILLA 21 fishing boat, and therein set out with a dozen companionsto wage war alone against the giant Empire of Brazil, thefirst to unfurl on those southern coasts the Republicanbanner of Rio Grande, a banner of freedom. ^ Well wasthe little boat called Mazzini. But they soon changed itfor a larger ship which they had captured, and continuedthe struggle with ever-increasing success. Gradually Garibaldis warfare became amphibious, andbefore long, celebrated as he was for his exploits at sea,he was yet more celebrated as a guerilla chief, leadingbodies of a few hundred, sometimes a few thousand men,across the vast upland plains and forests and river gorgesof the Continent, that lay between the Atlantic and theParana River. The cavalry, who were often the morenumerous arm, were natives of the wilderness, horsemenbom and bred, and magnificently mounted ; hardy andresourceful as the Boers, they had more dash, and likedclose quarters. Their favourite weapon was the lance ;t

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