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Famous Old Tower of London: Garibaldi
After numerous adventures William grew up to man's estate, and greatly distinguished himself as a warrior. Among the unhappy princes of the early Anglo-Norman race was William of a wound received in battle. He died July 27, 1128, from the effects Clito, son to the eldest son of William the Adventure of Anita Garibaldi.
Conqueror. When the merciless Henry Garibaldi was an Italian patriot, who Beauclerc had put out the eyes of Robert had a horror of despotism, and was for of Normandy, and then thrown him into many years the intrepid leader of the a dungeon in Cardiff Castle. he managed party in Italy who favored a republican form of government and aimed to secure enemy, under another leader, were enthe liberties of the people. Although countered. The fearless patriot comoften unfortunate in his schemes, no one mander, without remembering the vast can doubt his lofty patriotism and con- disparity of numbers, charged upon the summate generalship. His proclamations imperialists, who, by a show of retreating, and addresses burned with the white heat drew them into a well-concealed ambusof eloquence itself, and his terrible right cade, but the intrepidity and desperate arm fought tyranny and despotism to the courage of the patriots apparently soon face for half a century. turned the fortunes of war again in their Having served in the Sardinian navy, favor, and the Brazilians again retreated. and in the service of the Bey of Tunis, he But it was only another feint, which was in the service of the Bey of Tunis, he But it was only another feint, which was shipped from Marseilles for Rio Janeiro. too successful. The republicans were The little Republic of Rio Grande was outflanked and completely routed. then battling bravely against Brazil, Garibaldi, understanding their dire exwhose emperor had imprisoned in Rio tremity, cut his way to the crest of a high the President of the Republic of Rio hill, where he threw up a temporary barri- Grande and his secretary.
In New York the great liberator encountered Rosetti, an Italian, exiled like himself, and the two united as champions of the desperate cause of the young republic.
It was the good fortune of Garibaldi to possess a wife almost as extraordinary as himself. She was a native of Brazil, and as remarkable for her beauty, her gentleness, and her virtues, as she was for her valor. We have only space to give one of her heroic adventures when her husband cade and made a stand. This served as a sort of rallying point, and although less than a hundred of the patriots gathered here, yet, under the command of Garibaldi and Colonel Texeira, they withstood the repeated assault of the enemy's cavalry, and at length, in the best of order, retreated to a dense wood about a mile distant.