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- 0:00Speaker 1: Appendix B of Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by
- 0:04Speaker 1: George McCaulay Trevellion. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Expeditions of volunteers from North Italy who joined Garibaldi after
- 0:13Speaker 1: the first sailing of the Thousand in May. On May
- 0:17Speaker 1: twenty fourth, leaving Genoa was the Utulee. Approximate number of
- 0:21Speaker 1: men on board was sixty under Annetta, chiefly arms and ammunition.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Leaving Genoa on the night of June eighth and ninth,
- 0:31Speaker 1: the Utulae, the second voyage, along with Charles and Jane
- 0:34Speaker 1: the American clipper, had nine hundred or a thousand men
- 0:38Speaker 1: under Corte, was captured at sea and taken to Gaieta,
- 0:42Speaker 1: released and came out again in the Amazon, which left
- 0:46Speaker 1: Genoa July fifteenth. They were just in time for the
- 0:49Speaker 1: Battle of Mulazzo. The following is Medici's expedition, which had
- 0:54Speaker 1: close on twenty five hundred men with eight thousand firearms
- 0:58Speaker 1: and much ammunition. On the night of June ninth and tenth,
- 1:02Speaker 1: the Washington French steamer belonging to the Massagers Imperiales left
- 1:07Speaker 1: Genoa with twelve hundred or fourteen hundred with Medici in
- 1:10Speaker 1: person paired and the Marios on board. On the night
- 1:14Speaker 1: of June ninth and tenth, Oregan French steamer left with
- 1:18Speaker 1: two hundred nine under Caldesi. Some estimate a little higher.
- 1:23Speaker 1: On June tenth, from Leghorn, the Frankland Amsterdam French steamer
- 1:28Speaker 1: left Genoa with eight hundred men under Malancini. On June
- 1:33Speaker 1: twenty ninth, the Medea left Genoa with three hundred sixty
- 1:37Speaker 1: five or six hundred fifty men under Fazioli. The following
- 1:41Speaker 1: is Cozence expedition with over two thousand. On July second,
- 1:46Speaker 1: the Washington left Genoa on their second voyage with one thousand,
- 1:50Speaker 1: two hundred seventy with Cozens in person. Also on July second,
- 1:55Speaker 1: the Province left Genoa with seven hundred and seventy men
- 1:58Speaker 1: on board. On July seventh, the Organ left Genoa on
- 2:02Speaker 1: the second voyage with four hundred and four men under Siicoli.
- 2:07Speaker 1: On July ninth, the Province left Genoa on her second
- 2:10Speaker 1: voyage with seven hundred and sixty five men under Kirchie.
- 2:14Speaker 1: On July ninth, Salmon left Genoa with five hundred and
- 2:18Speaker 1: twenty six men under Vaccheri. On July tenth, Iserre, with
- 2:23Speaker 1: four hundred and seven men under Chirrivanga, left Genoa. On
- 2:27Speaker 1: July tenth or the eleventh City of Aberdeen left Genoa
- 2:32Speaker 1: with nine hundred men under Strambio. On July fifteenth, the Amazon,
- 2:36Speaker 1: a British ship, left Genoa with the men of Cortes
- 2:39Speaker 1: Gayeta Battalion on board. On July sixteenth, the Province, on
- 2:44Speaker 1: its third voyage, left Genoa with four hundred and five
- 2:47Speaker 1: men under Cassaro. On July eighteenth, Chiita de Torno, a
- 2:52Speaker 1: large steamer formerly belonging to Chia trans Atlantica, left with
- 2:57Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and thirty five men under Sachi. On July
- 3:01Speaker 1: twenty first, the Franklin left Genoa on the second voyage
- 3:05Speaker 1: with five hundred sixty four men under Gobi. On July
- 3:09Speaker 1: twenty first or twenty second, the Amazon left Genoa on
- 3:13Speaker 1: her second voyage with about three hundred ninety men under Bertie.
- 3:18Speaker 1: On July twenty third, Isseyri, on the second voyage, left
- 3:21Speaker 1: Genoa with four hundred and thirteen men or four hundred
- 3:25Speaker 1: twenty three. On July sixth, or the eighth, the Province
- 3:29Speaker 1: left Genoa on her fourth voyage with two hundred eleven
- 3:33Speaker 1: men under Pietro Cortes. On July tenth to the fifteenth,
- 3:37Speaker 1: Issya's third voyage left Genoa with the Amazon, Beats Ottine
- 3:42Speaker 1: and Chita di Tourino with approximately eighteen hundred men on board.
- 3:47Speaker 1: These ships carried approximately three thousand, seven hundred and eight
- 3:50Speaker 1: men on board, leaving Genoa on about August eleventh and
- 3:55Speaker 1: reaching Calgary by August fifteenth, where the General Garibaldi care
- 4:00Speaker 1: six hundred and eighty men. The Ardy Shepherd and American ship,
- 4:04Speaker 1: carrying approximately fifteen hundred men, leaving from Specia and reaching
- 4:08Speaker 1: Calgary on August fifteenth, was the Weasel, an English ship
- 4:12Speaker 1: carrying approximately thirty two men. On August sixteenth, the Sydney
- 4:16Speaker 1: Hall left Genoa with five hundred and forty two men.
- 4:20Speaker 1: On August twentieth, the Province on her fifth voyage, left
- 4:23Speaker 1: Genoa with approximately five hundred and eighty two men. On
- 4:27Speaker 1: September first through the third, from Fable Leghorn, the Garibaldi,
- 4:31Speaker 1: Polichi and San Niccola departed with two thousand men. These
- 4:36Speaker 1: various expeditions together make a total of about twenty one
- 4:39Speaker 1: thousand men besides the ships in the above list, which
- 4:43Speaker 1: took them in south. There were many other ships engaged
- 4:46Speaker 1: in carrying arms and stores, as the large Queen of
- 4:49Speaker 1: England and the Independents, the small Ferret and Badger, which
- 4:54Speaker 1: together with the Weasel in the list above were the
- 4:56Speaker 1: five steamers bought by Britanni Central Committee. We also find
- 5:01Speaker 1: mention of the ships Spidizione and Colonelo Sacchi taking out
- 5:06Speaker 1: stores in the Milan m A. S. S. Archivo, Bertani,
- 5:10Speaker 1: Plicci Lilive. The expeditions of June and July, especially those
- 5:15Speaker 1: of Medici and Cosins, were fitted out, paid for and
- 5:18Speaker 1: sent mainly by the Corvarian National Society and by the
- 5:22Speaker 1: Million Rifles Fund, financed for the purpose by the government itself.
- 5:27Speaker 1: But the larger expeditions of August were fitted out and
- 5:30Speaker 1: paid for and sent mainly by Brittani's Central Committee and
- 5:34Speaker 1: the more advanced parties, who also bought the Queen of England,
- 5:38Speaker 1: the Independence, and the Ferret and the Badger steamers used
- 5:41Speaker 1: only for carrying arms from Genoa and therefore not mentioned
- 5:45Speaker 1: in the above list. End of Appendix B