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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Grigork on 11 February 2016, 09:35:32 PM

Title: 1860 Garbaldini in Sicily pictures
Post by: Grigork on 11 February 2016, 09:35:32 PM
Pictures I took in 2008 at the Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome:

http://thewargamingmegalomaniac.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/1860-garbaldini-in-sicily.html (http://thewargamingmegalomaniac.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/1860-garbaldini-in-sicily.html)

My favorite being:
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aW5tLxMGZK8/VrkFhUZa6lI/AAAAAAADlhA/PccWOi4jods/s1600/DSC02410.JPG)
Title: Re: 1860 Garbaldini in Sicily pictures
Post by: gringo on 11 February 2016, 11:28:37 PM
grigork'' :D  great pic.............any more in reserve?

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Title: Re: 1860 Garbaldini in Sicily pictures
Post by: italwars on 12 February 2016, 09:32:24 PM
the interesting things is the presence of Neapolitan prisoners..some of them in red pants...mixed with crey-blue ones...service and campaign uniforms items together...
the evidence of their use in battle is given in a book from a Garibaldini in which answering to the alarmed question from a Sicilian gentleman volunteer (traitor) : "beware French units are present on the battlefield"..he answered.."take it easy..also the Neapolitans wear red trousers"
Title: Re: 1860 Garbaldini in Sicily pictures
Post by: gringo on 14 February 2016, 06:52:21 PM
italwars...great bit of trouser-wear insight there!! :D

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Title: Re: 1860 Garbaldini in Sicily pictures
Post by: Grigork on 16 February 2016, 01:52:32 PM
I have pictures covering 1862,1866 and 1870 to post. I thought I had more pictures of Papal uniforms from 1848 to 62 but sadly I remembered I wasn't allowed to take photos in the Castle San Angelo.
Title: Re: 1860 Garbaldini in Sicily pictures
Post by: gringo on 16 February 2016, 02:12:49 PM
looking forward to seeing the collection of pics! ;)

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Title: Re: 1860 Garbaldini in Sicily pictures
Post by: italwars on 16 February 2016, 07:26:28 PM
Quote from: Grigork on 16 February 2016, 01:52:32 PM
I have pictures covering 1862,1866 and 1870 to post. I thought I had more pictures of Papal uniforms from 1848 to 62 but sadly I remembered I wasn't allowed to take photos in the Castle San Angelo.

My City of Rome is such a mess and the museums led as 3rd Word Country with incompetent ruffian employees unable to speak a world in English that is really a shame that they also annoy people from Foreign Countries interested in our history with such an unpractical  prohibition.