Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he dark, withoutany mishap, the troops were all safely landed atMelito next morning, on the spot celebrated asthe one on which the former expedition hadgone ashore. Garibaldi landed in Calabria with a force oiabout 3,000 men—a very insignificant body, onewould have thought, to march against walledand embattled Rome with its formidable Frenchgarrison. But by the time he came into collisionwith the royal troops, who had been sent afterhim to arrest his progress, his little army of RedShirts had dwindled by about a half on accountof the privations to which it was exposed andthe rapid marches which had been exacted of it. On hearing of Garibaldis naval coiip-de-mainat Catania, and his crossing over to Calabria,General Cialdini at once gave chase, and in orderto catch the Hero of Caprera, he sent two of hisgenerals—Revel and Vialardi—with a body ofroyal troops to draw a cordon across the isthmusof Tiriolo at its narrowest point, between Xicastro 304 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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CATANIA. and Catanzaro, so as thus to bar the Rome-wardmarch of the Red Shirts. Having done this, henext ordered three vessels of war to cruise aboutthe Straits so as to prevent Garibaldi from re-embarking, and then despatched Major-GeneralPallavicini, at the head of a considerable force,from Reggio, with instructions to drive the RedShirts northwards in the direction of the afore-said cordon on the isthmus, as game is driven bythe beaters towards the sportsmen—Pallavicinisinstructions being to attack Garibaldi any-where and anyhow, unless he consented toan unconditional surrender. Things had thus assumed a very serious aspectindeed for the disillusioned Hero of Caprera,who, on the evening of the 28th August, after along and tiring days march, had pitched hiscamp on the brow of the far-famed hill ofAspromonte, on a plateau overlooking the sea,with a wood behind which connected it with ahigh range of the Apennines, and would affordample shelter for his troops. The men wereencamped nl

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