WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the army called that fought for the unification of Italy?
A
Black Shirts
B
Citizens United
C
Pizza Pies
D
Red Shirts
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Italian nationalist leader, Giuseppe Garibaldi, returned to Italy from exile with an overwhelming probability of victory. He raised an army called the Red Shirts or the Red Brigade.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Redshirts (Italian: Camicie rosse or Giubbe rosse), also called the Red coats, are volunteers who followed the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns.

Detailed explanation-3: -Redshirts is the name given to the volunteers who during campaigns in Uruguay and Italy, accompanied the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi and later his son Ricciotti in Greece and the Balkans, from the 1840s to the 1910s.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1867, Garibaldi led an army of volunteers known as Red shirts to Rome to fight the last obstacle to the unification of Italy, the Papal States where a French garrison was stationed.

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