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Updated: May 20, 2025
The leader of the red-shirts, having done what no king could do, was thenceforth to be controlled by the monarchy of the north.
Nevertheless, he secretly gave Garibaldi all the help that he dared, and urged men to enroll with him. With his thousand "red-shirts," as they were called, Garibaldi landed on the island of Sicily, at Marsala. The inhabitants rose to welcome him, and everywhere they drove out the officers who had been appointed by their king to rule them.
The royalists, though taken by surprise in the first instance, had time to dispose a strong force behind walls and barricades before Garibaldi could reach the gate, and it required two hours of severe fighting to take the position. Many Red-shirts were killed, and Benedetto Cairoli received the severe wound from which he never wholly recovered.
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