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Ricciotti GaribaldiItalian soldier and revolutionary
Date of Birth: 24.02.1847
Country:  Italy |
Content:
- Giuseppe Ricciotti Garibaldi: A Life of Revolution and Adventure
- Military Exploits
- Post-Military Life
- The Balkan Wars
- Legacy
Giuseppe Ricciotti Garibaldi: A Life of Revolution and Adventure
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1842, Giuseppe Ricciotti Garibaldi was the fourth son of Italian revolutionary and nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi and his second wife, Anita Garibaldi. Named after Nicola Ricciotti, a comrade-in-arms executed during an unsuccessful expedition against the Kingdom of Naples, Ricciotti spent his early years in Nice, Caprera, and England.
Military Exploits
In 1866, Ricciotti joined his father in the Battle of Bezzecca and later the Battle of Mentana (1867). During the Franco-Prussian War (1870), he fought alongside his father in the Vosges, capturing Ch?tillon and seizing the only Prussian flag lost in the conflict at Pouilly.
Post-Military Life
After failed attempts at establishing commercial ventures in America and Australia, Ricciotti was elected to the Italian Parliament from 1887 to 1890. In 1897, at the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War, he assembled the Garibaldian Corps of 1300 fighters and fought alongside the Greeks in the Battle of Domokos.
The Balkan Wars
The legacy of the Garibaldian Corps lived on 15 years later. As the First Balkan War erupted in 1912, Ricciotti's Greek comrade and former President of Greece, Alexandros Rompas, formed the Greek Redshirts Corps of 1200 men. On October 20, 1912, Ricciotti and his family arrived in Greece and established another corps of 1200 Italian and British volunteers. Command of this corps was given to Peppino Garibaldi, who had just returned from the Mexican Revolution.
Both the Greek and Italo-British Garibaldian Corps participated in the Battle of Driskos (November 26-28, 1912), where 200 Garibaldians fell, including the renowned Greek poet and Garibaldian, Lorenzos Mavilis.
Legacy
Of Ricciotti Garibaldi's six sons, three (Peppino, Giuseppe, and Ezio) also became soldiers. Ricciotti Garibaldi passed away in Rome in 1924, leaving behind a remarkable legacy of military heroism and revolutionary spirit.
