After defeat at Palermo left the capital and much of the island under Garibaldi's control, the thousands of Neapolitan troops on Sicily withdrew to the Italian mainland. In twenty-four ships gathered for their transport, the forces of the Kingdom of Naples left the province for the last time on this day. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
G.M. Trevelyan, Garibaldi and the Thousand, May 1860 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1916), 326.
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