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29 - Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by George Macaulay Trevelyan · Garibaldi and the Making of Italy

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  Speaker 1: Appendix K of Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by
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  Speaker 1: George Macaulay Trevellion. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Numbers in the Castle Fiediardo Campaign one North Italian Army
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  Speaker 1: a total force. General Fonti says that his army consisted
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  Speaker 1: of thirty three thousand men all told. This was the
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  Speaker 1: total expeditionary force that liberated the Marches and Umbria, and
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  Speaker 1: includes Della Rocca's and c Cialdini's corps b present at
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  Speaker 1: Battle of Castel Fiediardo. The official return with full details
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  Speaker 1: of every regiment et cetera given in Castle Fiediardo, page
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  Speaker 1: thirty four, sixty eight through seventy one is as follows.
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  Speaker 1: Prison on the field sixteen thousand, four hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: nine officers and men plus forty two cannon effectively engaged
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  Speaker 1: four thousand, eight hundred and eighty men and fourteen cannon viz.
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  Speaker 1: Ninth and tenth line, eleventh, twelfth and twenty sixth versil
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Regiment of Lancers of Novara and artillery losses sixty
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  Speaker 1: two killed, one hundred and forty wounded. The tenth line
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  Speaker 1: bore about three quarters of these losses two popal army.
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  Speaker 1: The exact enumeration of Lamoricheri's army is more difficult because
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  Speaker 1: there is discrepancy between the statements of the papal generals
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  Speaker 1: as to the numbers they commanded and the statements of
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  Speaker 1: the Piedmontese generals as to the number of prisoners they took.
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  Speaker 1: A total of Lamorcheri's force, this may be calculated in
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  Speaker 1: three sections, the field army, the small garrisons, and the
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  Speaker 1: Garrison of Ancona. One field army eight thousand bannets and
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  Speaker 1: three hundred artillery, says Lamorcheri himself, Two small garrisons. La
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  Speaker 1: Morcheri says twenty companies a three thousand men, certainly not
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  Speaker 1: an overestimate, seeing that fifteen hundred were taken in Perugia alone.
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  Speaker 1: Three garrison of Ancona. Lemur Cherie puts it at two battalions,
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  Speaker 1: but Quadra Barbis, the governor of the place during the siege,
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  Speaker 1: tells us he had towards the end of the siege
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  Speaker 1: six hundred sick or wounded and thirty five hundred combatants.
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  Speaker 1: This official estimate of forty one hundred for the Garrison
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  Speaker 1: of Ancona is the lowest possible of these, less than
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  Speaker 1: fifty were refugees from the field army brought in by
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  Speaker 1: Lamoricheri after the Battle of Castel Fitiardo. The Piedmontes assert
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  Speaker 1: that they counted six thousand men and three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty eight officers as prisoners when the place surrendered. Except
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  Speaker 1: in these data we arrive at a total of fifteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand or seventeen thousand men for the whole force commanded
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  Speaker 1: by Lamori Cheri. This is, I think, a more exact
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  Speaker 1: estimate than that of Disiaise, who makes the total only
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  Speaker 1: eleven thousand, excepting Lamorri Cherries under estimate of the garrison
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  Speaker 1: of Ancona, and not noticing Quadra Barbie's amission that he
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  Speaker 1: had forty one hundred soldiers in Ancona. In the clerical
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  Speaker 1: Life of de Morode, the total is put at eighteen thousand,
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  Speaker 1: and Fante says, possibly with exaggeration, that he took seventeen
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  Speaker 1: thousand to eighteen thousand prisoners. It is admitted that he
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  Speaker 1: took all Lamori Cherri's army in the field and in
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  Speaker 1: fortresses except two or three thousand men b present at
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  Speaker 1: Battle of Castel Fridiardo of the field army of eighteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand bannets and three hundred artillery. The very great majority
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  Speaker 1: were present at the decisive battle, though not nearly all
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  Speaker 1: were effectively engaged. The Bulletin of the Pontificial Army, published
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  Speaker 1: in Castelfidiardo, pages eighty five through eighty seven, estimates those
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  Speaker 1: present at six thousand, five hundred fifty le Morcheri's own
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  Speaker 1: division being thirty five hundred and Pimodans three thousand and fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Lmorcheres twenty reduces these totals and makes the whole force
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  Speaker 1: present forty six hundred, but the bulletin is most likely
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  Speaker 1: to be right. It is quite certain that three thousand
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  Speaker 1: and ninety four prisoners, mostly foreigners, had been taken by
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  Speaker 1: September twentieth, and the statement of Oreo and Fanti that
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  Speaker 1: three thousand more, chiefly native itttalions disbanded after the battle
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  Speaker 1: of whom two thousand more were captured piecemeal in the
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  Speaker 1: following week, is probably not far from the truth. End
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  Speaker 1: of Appendix K recording by Kirk zigler Ogden Utah voice
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  Speaker 1: overs by Kirk dot Com. End of Garibaldi in the
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  Speaker 1: Making of Italy by George McCaulay Trevellion,