Now I have been passing this memorial to the men who fought with Garibaldi for the unification of Italy for years and have never given it much thought.
It stands in one of the very fashionable streets in the city and it has featured in lots of photographs.
It commemorates the day on March 26 1859 when Garibaldi’s Hunters of the Alps confronted Austrian forces at Varese.
The Hunters of the Alps (Italian: Cacciatori delle Alpi) were a special military corps created by Giuseppe Garibaldi in Cuneo on 20 February 1859 to help the regular Sardinian army to free the northern part of Italy in the Second Italian War of Independence.
Location; Varese
Picture; war memorial, 2017, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
It commemorates the day on March 26 1859 when Garibaldi’s Hunters of the Alps confronted Austrian forces at Varese.
The Hunters of the Alps (Italian: Cacciatori delle Alpi) were a special military corps created by Giuseppe Garibaldi in Cuneo on 20 February 1859 to help the regular Sardinian army to free the northern part of Italy in the Second Italian War of Independence.
Location; Varese
Picture; war memorial, 2017, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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