WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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 II of Piedmont, who established the Kingdom of Italy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Expedition of the Thousand, Italian Spedizione dei Mille, campaign undertaken in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi that overthrew the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Naples) and permitted the union of southern Italy and Sicily with the north.

Detailed explanation-3: -Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1880. headed two private expeditions against papal Rome in 1862 and 1867, and in 1866 he led an Italian army in yet another victory over the Austrians, acquiring Venice for the Italian Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-4: -Giuseppi Garibaldi, a native of Piedmont-Sardinia, was instrumental in bringing the southern Italian states into the unification process. In 1860, Garibaldi cobbled together an army (referred to as the “Thousand”) to march into the southern part of the peninsula.

Detailed explanation-5: -Garibaldi’s liberation of Sicily and Naples was important because it united the southern Italian territories. After these territories were united, the complete unison of all of Italy was much easier.