What role did giuseppe garibaldi play in unification of Italy
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Giuseppe Garibaldi was the most celebrated of Italian freedom fighters. He played an instrumental role. In 1833, he joined the ‘Young Italy’ movement and participated in a republican uprising in Piedmont in 1834. In 1860, Garibaldi led the famous expedition of the Thousand to South Italy. In 1867, Garibaldi led an army of volunteers to Rome to fight the last obstacle to the unification of Italy. Apart from regular troops, a large number of armed volunteers under the leadership of Giuseppe Garibaldi joined. In 1860, they marched into South Italy and the kingdom of the two Sicilies, and succeeded in winning the support of the local peasants in order to drive out the Spanish rulers.
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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
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