Garibaldi's Wars of Liberation 28mm range coming soon from Gringo40s

[pierrebi]

there are many who think a simplistic crypto-marxist view based on the economy explains everything

I think you're confusing, we are talking about professor Torresani that teaches at Santa Croce University, by Opus Dei!

He writes on web site "Con Francesco" http://www.confrancesco.it/index.php?app=showrub&cat=3&pag=2&idCat=3&mese=13&anno=13&word_s=, not "Mit Karl"

   

[malto cortese]

I think you're confusing, we are talking about professor Torresani that teaches at Santa Croce University, by Opus Dei!

He writes on web site "Con Francesco" http://www.confrancesco.it/index.php?app=showrub&cat=3&pag=2&idCat=3&mese=13&anno=13&word_s=, not "Mit Karl"

   

No, these uber-Catholic zealots borrow the language and the ideas of the old left to appear modern and hide their conservatism.  Any explanation of the risorgimento as driven exclusively by economic forces is profoundly reductionist and incomplete

[gringo]

Malto

good to know you are on -board and as you say possibly my first
customer for the whole collection..........theres a lot of work to
do on this vast amphitheatre of history...........

I will look at the Hungarians of course and am open to all suggestions
for the range..........
regards
Ged
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[Aaron]

My only suggestion is for you to work faster. I want them NOW!! 

[gringo]

Aaron

I will do that Aaron but they may only find my smoking  shoes as I self combust!!

thanks for the support

regards
Ged
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[pierrebi]

I think I am going to use some of this range of miniatures, they are very nice and I am very proude to use some italians

[italian]

Good afternoon Ged, may i suggest also to expand the range to "brigantaggio" ?

After the conquest of Garibaldi there was a period of civil war between the partisans of the Bourbons in south Italy and the new italian kingdom.

The following is a link on the subject

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigantaggio_postunitario

Regards

Diego

[gringo]

Pieterrebi

many thanks indeed 

Diego

good evening to you..............what an interesting link
and very tempting!!

regards
Ged
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[argsilverson]

What !!! I lost my pace!!!! I just show this exciting thread and what exciting news indeed!!!


What a range
Yes, I must have some of them!!!

Please, Please make a couple of carabinieri (police in their colourful and flamboyand uniform, still in use!) on foot (at least one officer,too) .
I need them desperately  urgently for my cretan gendarmerie and ofcourse to spice up my VSF armies!!!
Ah make and a couple of personalities like Verdi (his popularity is owed also to his name's use as an acronym - Vittotio Emanuelle
Re D' Italia, used to declare secretly the support to unification cause!), the Pope and a couple of Italian ladies to spice it up!

[gringo]

Argsilverson
many thanks for your enthusiastic suppor :ot

this will be a comprehensive range so all requests

like yours considered.VERDI is very interesting!!'

regards
Ged

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[malto cortese]

Argsilverson
many thanks for your enthusiastic suppor :ot

this will be a comprehensive range so all requests

like yours considered.VERDI is very interesting!!'

regards
Ged

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Gringo,

are we talking about Garibaldi's adventures or the whole Risorgimento? If you are thinking about the latter, the sky is the limit as to what we can suggest... I belong to that generation that was schooled on the myths of the risorgimento (yes, I am old enough) and I can provide you a long list of colorful characters!

[pierrebi]

After the conquest of Garibaldi there was a period of civil war between the partisans of the Bourbons in south Italy and the new italian kingdom.

The Unification of Italy certainly can not be considered responsible for the birth of Brigantaggio (that is historical antecedents) but it is certain that the "Piedmont" and the short-sighted policy of broken promises can be attributed to the explosion of banditry

this is a message for a Not-Proud-At-All descendent of a Gold medal piedmontese official in the war against bandity!

poorly translated excerpt from this website http://lamartinasalvo.blogspot.it/p/mafia.html

I remember some 28mm miniature for italian brigants, I cannot remenber the producer, can somebody help me?

[gringo]

Malto

I am indeed.........

do send me any suggestions or post here............

regards

Ged

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[argsilverson]

My enthusiasm comes from the fact that Garibaldi (OK his son) and Garibaldini (both Italians and Greeks) took part in the wars of further Greek Liberation- if I may say so! The  ill-fated war of 1897  and the first balkan war of 1912-1913 against Turkey.
http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=93503&stc=1&d=1336189678 a garibaldini probably from the Osprey book on balkan wars.
In our War Museum you may still see the red (or is it scarlet?)  Jacket of the Greek poet and politician Lorenzo Mavili who was KIA at the battle of Drisko by 1912. He served as a captain of the Garibaldini volunteers.

OK this is a later story. But here is a carabinieri trainer by the Cretan Gendarmerie:
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Gendarmeria_Cretese.jpg

And some Garibaldi era reenactors:
http://garibaldini.wordpress.com/galleria-immagini/lo-sbarco-a-codigoro/

I must add that some of the uniforms used by various Italian states of the time (as well as uniforms of some little later eras) plus the 2nd Empire French uniforms are crying to be used in VSF armies and IHMN! (And those cantinieres, too)

Looking forward to see the expansion of this line!

[pierrebi]

do send me any suggestions or post here............

What about 1844 attempt of the Bandiera brothers and their generous companions? They came to Calabria for an ideal of freedom and independence and their existences were closed by a burst of gunfire into the valley of Rovito.



"The Martyrs of Belfiore," patriots belonging to the illegal Mazzini organization executed in 1852-53 in the fort of Belfiore, near Mantua, during tortures they  confessed their conspiratorial activities. Some of them were priests.



There are many Italian women who participated with emotion in the building process of the unification of Italy, and not only through the concern for the fate of sons or husbands engaged in the war, or  sewing flags and rosettes, but also as real protagonists of political and military events.



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