Giuseppe Garibaldi
Throughout history, many have spent years to promise a society of peace, safety, and unified for its people. But following the liberation of southern Italy from the Neapolitan monarchy. Not only did he hold determination, but chose to sacrifice his liberal republican principles for the sake of unification
On July 4, 1807, Giuseppe Garibaldi was born in Nice, which was part of the French Empire at the time. As the son of Giovanni Domenico Garibaldi and his mother Maria Rosa Nicoletta Raimondo, he was given the name Joseph Marie Garibaldi. While growing up in France, Garibaldi's family was heavily involved in coastal trade. As a result, he was not only instantly drew to a life at sea, but actively participated in the community of the Nizzardo Italians, and eventually was certified in 1832 as a merchant marine captain. As an advocate of unifying Italy as a liberal republic through political and social reform, Garibaldi later joined the society and took an oath in order to dedicate himself to work to free and unify his homeland from the dominance of Austria. However, after participating in a failed republican uprising in Piedmont in 1834, Garibaldi was sentenced to death in Genoa but escaped to France later that year. After his swift escape, Garibaldi then sailed to Tunisia and later left for Brazil with the goal to fight for its independence from Portugal. During this war, he met a woman named Anita Ribeiro, who joined him on his ship Rio Pardo in 1839, fought alongside in the battles of Laguna and Imbituba, helped with his trade, and eventually married him in Montevideo in the next year. There, they had four children named Menotti, Rosita, Teresita, and Ricciotti. Meanwhile, since Anita was known for her skills with horses, Anita spent her time teaching her husband about the culture of southern Uruguay and Brazil. Around this time, Garibaldi also adopted his distinctive clothing of a red shirt, poncho, and sombrero which were commonly worn by the gauchos (or the common people of Brazil). In 1842, Garibaldi was elected leader of the Uruguayan fleet, and rose what called an "Italian Legion" for the Uruguayan Civil War. This included aligning his forces with a party made up of the Uruguayan Colorados and the Argentine Unitarios. Struggling against the forces of the former Uruguayan president Manuel Oribes Blancos, this group also received some support from the British and French Empires. After its creation, the Italian Legion then decided to adopt a black flag to represent Italy in mourning, with a volcano at the center to symbolize the dormant power in their homeland. Besides the flag, they also wore red shirts that were obtained from a