Domenico Menotti Garibaldi was an Italian soldier and politician who was the eldest son of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Garibaldi.
10 Facts About Menotti Garibaldi
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Menotti Garibaldi fought in the Second and Third wars of Italian Unification, and organized the Garibaldi Legion, a unit of Italian volunteers who fought for Polish independence in the January Uprising of 1863.
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Menotti Garibaldi was named after his grandfather, Domenico Garibaldi, and the Italian patriot Ciro Menotti, whom Giuseppe Garibaldi considered a martyr.
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Menotti Garibaldi was partly educated at a military school in Genoa.
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In 1859, aged 19, Menotti Garibaldi joined his father's newly formed legion of Redshirts, the Hunters of the Alps, created to assist Piedmont-Sardinia against Austria in the Second Italian War of Independence.
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Menotti Garibaldi took part in the Expedition of the Thousand against the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in 1860, during which he was wounded at the Battle of Calatafimi.
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In 1863, during the January Uprising in Poland, Menotti Garibaldi organized a legion of Italian volunteers, the Menotti Garibaldi Legion, led by general Francesco Nullo, to support the Polish insurgents in the fight against the Russian Empire.
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Menotti Garibaldi accompanied his father in a trip to London in 1864.
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Two years later, during the Third Italian War of Independence, Menotti Garibaldi fought alongside his brother Ricciotti, father and brother-in-law at the Battle of Bezzecca, which resulted in a victory over Austrian troops.
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Menotti Garibaldi was made a general in the new army of unified Italy.