Word: garibaldis
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...inevitable upheavals that follow all wars, but he was not long to act. Bolshevism taught him his great lesson; the great social unrest in Italy of 1920-1921 gave him the necessary impetus. In a country where the shirt has played such an important part in polities since Garibaldi produced the Red Shirts (symbols of liberty) it is not unnatural that Mussolini should look to shirts as a political weapon. He founded the Black Shirts, or the Fascisti Party, on the political theory that Bolshevik tactics must be used to combat Bolshevism. It is said that he chose black...
...isle of Caprera (which Guiseppi Garibaldi bought in 1854 with the money he had earned as a chandler at New York) died Francesca Garibaldi, third wife of Italy's great hero. She was 75 years old?the same age at which her famous husband died...
Francesca, a Piedmontese, went to Caprera in 1867 (aged 19) as a nurse to Garibaldi's grandchildren. He married her after the annulment of his union with the Contessa Raimondi, who aided him during his 1859 campaign...
...Garibaldi's first wife was Anita, whom he met in South America when fighting on the side of Rio Grande do Sul, which was in revolt against Brazil. She, his inseparable companion, died in 1849 while accompanying her husband on a campaign against the Austrians...
Died. Signora Francesca Garibaldi. (See page...