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Updated: May 25, 2025
Bitterly I deplored the gloomy sky which spoiled what would else have been a magnificent view from this point of vantage a view wide-spreading in all directions, with Sila northwards, Aspromonte to the south, and between them a long horizon of the sea.
He expected himself to be officially condemned, whilst in reality, as usual, privately sustained. So the Piedmontese army, which was intended to aid the filibusters in the sack of Rome, was obliged to fight them. It came up with the bands of Garibaldi, at a place called Aspromonte, on the 29th of August, 1862. The irregular force was defeated, its leader wounded in the heel and taken prisoner.
Italians, Switzers, Poles, Hungarians, Englishmen, as well as Frenchmen, were to be found in its ranks. The general could not be called a very old man, being indeed only sixty-three years of age, but he had led an eventful and arduous life; and, as will be remembered, ever since the affair of Aspromonte in 1862, he had been lame, and had gradually become more and more infirm.
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