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BROTHERS OF LIBERTY: GARIBALDI'S BRITISH LEGION*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2015

ELENA BACCHIN
ELENA BACCHIN*
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Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
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Abstract

This article examines the enrollment of a brigade of armed volunteers which took place in Great Britain in summer 1860 to help the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy. Through the narrative strategies used to promote the enlistment and the images of the brigade that circulated in both Great Britain and Italy, it reveals features of a cosmopolitanism of nations and of a commitment based on transnational values spread in the nineteenth century. This article argues that the narratives used to mobilize men for a foreign cause not only shared values of freedom, justice, fraternity among nations, and a romantic appeal, but they had a strong national connotation. It was British pride in its freedom and constitution that gave the power and legitimacy to interfere in foreign affairs. Moreover, joining foreign causes strengthened a sentiment of British national pride and identity. The Legion's organizational and disciplinary problems also shed light on the biases and difficulties that troubled these kinds of expeditions and on the latent contradictions between a sense of patriotic duty, the transnational ideals that dominated the rhetoric, and the underlying disillusionment and frustration of the daily routine.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 827 - 853
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I am grateful to Carlotta Sorba, Olindo De Napoli, and the two anonymous readers for their helpful comments at various stages.

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127 Ibid., letter by Moore, 17 Nov. 1860.

128 Ibid., (1), Peard to Garibaldi, 23 Oct. 1860; ibid., copy of the report of a board of enquiry composed by Smelt, Dimand, Crawford, Hare, Gribbell, [n.d.]; ibid., folder 302, documents related to Forbes's brigate in Resina, 3 Oct. 1860.

129 Ibid., folder 226.1, letter by Moore, 17 Nov. 1860.

130 Daily News, 1 Dec. 1860, letter by Cueto; AST, EIM, folder 226.2, letter by Peard, marginal note, 15 Feb. 1861.

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139 Daily News, 24 Nov. and 3 Dec. 1860.

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149 Ibid., 10 Dec. 1860, letter by Clyatt.

150 Times, 8 Nov. 1860.

151 Ibid., 7 Dec. 1860.

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160 Popolo d'Italia, 6 Dec. 1860.

161 Pemble, La passione del sud, p. 19.

162 MRM, Garibaldi-Curatulo, folder 571 (2), Peard to Garibaldi, 23 Oct. 1860.

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164 Unità italiana, 28 Oct. 1860.

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168 Daily News, 17 Sept. 1860.

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172 Reasoner, 31 Mar. 1861.

173 AST, EIM, 226.1 (1), Peard to Garibaldi, 23 Oct. 1860.

174 Birmingham Daily Post, 10 Jan. 1861, letter by Edwin George.

175 Ibid., 4 Jan. 1861, letter by A Volunteer.

176 Daily News, 24 Nov. 1860.

177 Mosse, Le guerre mondiali, pp. 30–1; Riall, ‘Martyr cults’, p. 280.

178 Pellegrino Sutcliffe, ‘British red shirts’, pp. 212–13; idem, ‘L'amore per Garibaldi’, p. 66.

179 MRM, Garibaldi-Curatolo, folder 449 (55), R. L. Weeks to Garibaldi, 1 July 1861; ibid., (72), W. Walpole Bell to Garibaldi, 20 Jan. 1862; MCRR, folder 53.11 (22), H. G. Hill to Garibaldi on behalf of forty men who composed the Dowling's Battery, 23 Jan. 1862.

180 BL, Add. MS 52997, Garibaldi's excursionists by H. J. Byron, [1860]. See also Riall, Garibaldi, p. 319.

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