Expedition of the Thousand

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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1. What is the event?Expedition of the Thousand (Spedizione dei Mille)
2. What is the date of departure?May 5, 1860
3. Why did the volunteers leave from Quarto al Mare?They set sail on May 5, 1860, using two steamships to reach Sicily and start the campaign.
4. How did the local people help the expedition?When the volunteers landed in Marsala, many Sicilian peasants and townspeople joined them, turning the small group into a larger army.

Risorgimento: The 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian peninsula into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
Bourbon-Two Sicilies: The ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, overthrown by Garibaldi's expedition.
Count Camillo Benso of Cavour: Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, a key architect of Italian unification who strategically supported Garibaldi's expedition.
Giuseppe Mazzini: A prominent republican politician and philosopher, considered one of the 'Fathers of the Fatherland' for his role in the unification movement.