2-996-105 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Liberators of Sicily - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860. Italian revolutionaries, '...in their rough-and-ready uniforms...A cacciatore of the Alps, Garibaldi's guide, Col. Türr, cavalry soldier, General Garibaldi, Tuscan volunteer, Col. Bixio, Lombardian volunteer, Col. Carini, one of the squadri...The antecedents of Garibaldi are too well known to require being particularised here...Bixio was originally a sailor, like his great commander; but when the cry to arms resounded through Italy in 1848 he hastened to join Garibaldi at Rome, and has ever since linked himself with the fortunes of his great leader. Carini, who is a Sicilian by birth, distinguished himself greatly in the last Sicilian revolution. He is one of the bravest of the brave; and, after an exile of twelve years, he has returned to his country to shed his blood in its behalf. He was wounded by some Bavarian troops in the Fierraa Vecchia, an hour after the armistice had been signed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.