Ricciotti Garibaldi
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...
and Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi
Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro di Garibaldi, best known as Anita Garibaldi, was the Brazilian wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi...
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Born in Montevideo
Montevideo
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, he was named in honour of Nicola Ricciotti executed during the failed expedition of the Bandiera Brothers
Bandiera Brothers
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against the Kingdom of Naples
Kingdom of Naples
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. He spent much of his youth in Nice
Nice
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, Caprera
Caprera
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and England.
In 1866, alongside his father, he took part in the Battle of Bezzecca
Battle of Bezzecca
The Battle of Bezzecca was fought on July 21, 1866 between Italy and Austria, in the course of the Third Italian Independence War. The Italian force, the Hunters of the Alps, were led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, and had invaded Trentino as part of the general Italian offensive against the Austrian...
(1866) and the Battle of Mentana
Battle of Mentana
The Battle of Mentana was fought on November 3, 1867 between French-Papal troops and the Italian volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who were attempting to capture Rome, then the main centre of the peninsula still outside of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy....
(1867); in 1870, during his father's expedition in support to France during the Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
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, he fought in the Vosges
Vosges
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, where he occupied Châtillon
Châtillon
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and, at Pouilly
Pouilly
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, captured the sole Prussian flag lost during the war.
After a failed attempt to create market enterprises in American and Australia, he was deputy in the Italian Parliament from 1887 to 1890. In 1897 and 1912 he fought with the Greek Army against the Ottomans with other Garibaldines.
Of his six sons, Peppino (Giuseppe Jr.; 1879–1950) and Ezio were also soldiers. He had also a daughter, Anita, who died in 1962.
Ricciotti Garibaldi died in Rome in 1924.