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Giuseppe Garibali (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian military and political leader. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection. He then contributed to the independence of Uruguay, leading the Italian Legion in the Uruguayan Civil War, and afterwards returned to Italy as a commander in the conflicts of the Risorgimento.

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  • U.S. officials twice asked this Italian patriot to serve as a Union major-general
  • This orange-red fish shares its name with the leader of the Redshirts
  • In the early 1850s this military hero worked as a candlemaker on Staten Island
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew points out a red fish from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) At Birch Aquarium at Scripps you can see this, named for a red-shirted Italian leader; concern for its survival led California to make it the state marine fish
  • He & his 1,000 "Red Shirts" took Sicily in 1860
  • In 1839 this Italian soldier joined the failed revolt in southern Brazil in what was called the "War of Tatters"
  • Later to lead the revolutionary Redshirts, he was born on the Fourth of July
  • In his effort to unite his nation, he won battles at Calatafimi & Milazzo in 1860
  • This hero was a sailor before joining the cause of Italian unity in the 1830s & trading blue & white for red
  • His brave retreat across Italy after his volunteers were kicked out of Rome in 1849 made him a hero

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