GARIBALDI

the Italian hero, was bom in 1807. He was the son of a poor fisherman, but in 1834 became a member of Mazzmi’s “Young Italy” party. Having to flee, he served with his famous * Italian legion ’ so brilliantly in South America as to earn the title of “ the hero of Monte Video." In 1848 he returned to Italy, and did 'great harm to the Austrians in Lombardy, but had again to flee. In 1859-60, with his Alpine Cha eurs, he performed prodigies of valour in Lombardy and Sicily, and was eventually proclaimed Dictator of the two Sicilies; but he was true to his motto of “ Italy and Victor Emmanuel,” and at once withdrew to his island of Caprera. He served against the Austrians in 1866, and against the Germans in 1870, when Rome became the capital of a united Italy. He died in 1882.