Garibaldi Day in Italy
Garibaldi Day in Italy is held on July 4. This event in the first decade of the month July is annual. Help us
Garibaldi fought for Italian unity and almost single-handedly united northern and southern Italy. He led a volunteer army of guerrilla soldiers to capture Lombardy for Piedmont and later conquered Sicily and Naples, giving southern Italy to King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, who established the Kingdom of Italy.
He is considered, with Camillo Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II and Giuseppe Mazzini, as one of Italy's “fathers of the fatherland”. Garibaldi's popularity, his skill at rousing the common people, and his military exploits are all credited with making the unification of Italy possible.
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