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

[gringo]

cheers Lance .appreciated.........wanted to do this for a long while!!

regards
Ged

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[carlos marighela]

Ged those are excellent figures   

Hmm I have a family connection with Garibaldi ( the man not the biscuit) Whilst I'm not sure I can see myself getting into yet another period, I would love a miniature of the man himself and one of Anna his wife.

[gringo]

Carlos

funny you should just reply.i wondered if this period would interest you
as I will porbably go back and do early Garibaldi in South America....need some good pictures of the Mrs though as accounts of her and pictures are
few and far between........I must have every book written on the subject now!! and im still digging deep.........whats the connection?
any info you may have ..drawings etc welcomed.managed to
get hold some really old pictures and books from Italy..top notch!

and just for you!! a pic of the Liberator par excellence!!

regards
Ged
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[carlos marighela]

I'll see what I can find picture wise.

Family connection is that my great-great grandfather took him back to Italy, according to family legend.

[gringo]

Carlos

any help picture wise would be appreciated

that's quite a connection!.........Garibaldi must

have had Charisma in bucketloads to inspire

all those supporters........still they were exceptional

times

regards
Ged
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[carlos marighela]

Ana is more famous than Giuseppe in Brazil btw. There's hardly a city of any size that doesn't have one street named after her. her wiki has a nice portrait of her in later life and a photo of her in Italy in drag.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Garibaldi

[carlos marighela]

Carlos

any help picture wise would be appreciated

that's quite a connection!.........Garibaldi must

have had Charisma in bucketloads to inspire

all those supporters........still they were exceptional

times

regards
Ged
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I believe in the case of my forebear it was far more likely to have been a matter of pure commerce. I'm somewhat more intrigued by his visits to South America. As I understand it he shipped manufactured goods and slate to Valparaiso and all stations in between. I keep wondering if I will one day run into some distant cousin be it in Chile or Brazil.

[gringo]

Carlos

she was quite a beauty it seems from the picture...brave to a fault
and by all accounts quite a handful to deal with....
He appears to have been smitten by her and remained loyal
till the last................

you never know who you bump into in this world from your
distant ancestoral past!The South American side fascinates me
I await the New book on the subject from Germany...with
great interest!

regards
Ged
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[bulldogger2000]

This is GREAT news!   I have been piecing things together for the Risorgimento for years!

[juergen c. olk]

How many periods are you going to tempt me with? Next you'll be doing William Walkers Phalange in Nicauragua,in 1855...........It would be easier not to buy,but you figures are always great!

[gringo]

bulldog..................that's good! 

same here really a "pet project" for some time

Juergen this may have to be all for the next few months

anyway as this a vast project and with the backfilling

of other ranges im at full stretch

regards
Ged

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[pierrebi]

Carlos

funny you should just reply.i wondered if this period would interest you
as I will porbably go back and do early Garibaldi in South America

I am italian, so at school we studied Garibaldi and have some news about his period in South America ... 20 years ago, a friend of my sister, who is from South America (she is a dentist and studied there at university) told us that, in Ecuador, she never studied at school about Garibaldi!

[carlos marighela]

I am italian, so at school we studied Garibaldi and have some news about his period in South America ... 20 years ago, a friend of my sister, who is from South America (she is a dentist and studied there at university) told us that, in Ecuador, she never studied at school about Garibaldi!

That's probably because they're fucking obsessed with Bolivar, well all their near neighbours are.  History consists of the Spanish conquistadores belting the locals, old Simon kicking them out and whatever happened last Wednesday. Such is the ubiquity of the Liberator and his likeness that after about three weeks in Colombia  I found myself pointing at his statue in and asking the locals "Who is that?" 

The Argentines have a similar fetish for San Martin. National heroes tend to be a bit more diffuse in Brazil, Osorio and chums from the Guerra do Paraguai are common subjects for civic monuments. My personal favourite though is Maria Quitéria, heroine of Bahian independence. In Bahia there are two independence days and 2 July is seen as much more important than the national version on 7 Sept.

[gringo]

Pierriebi

that's interesting I would have thought he would be of some
importance to the Equadorians.......! Still im happy he is well considered
in Italy as he deserves to be.

I want to tackle the Army of Piedmont.......even if just to do a decent
figure of the King....!

regards
Ged
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[gringo]

Chaps

a general request please..although I have a fair amount of "uniform" information I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right
direction bookwise...im sure Carlos has this at his fingertips!
the New book on the subject is en route to me ..I believe this
is pretty good on the uniforms and narrates the "Exotic Apprenticeship
" with some verve!

cheers
Ged
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we are talking 1835 onwards in South America
Nuno would be in the know as well im sure