On their march up the Calabrian coast, Garibaldi and his men took the town of Monteleone on August 27, 1860 then pursued the town's fleeing 10,000 strong royal garrison into the mountains.  Bourbon General Ghio surrendered his dispirited and trapped force without a fight near the mountain village of Soveria-Mannelli around noon on this day.  Garibaldi entered Naples on September 7, 1860.  (By John Osborne)   

On their 250 mile march up the Calabrian coast towards Naples, Garibaldi and his men took the ancient town of Monteleone without a fight.  In the following days, he pursued the 10,000 men garrison and forced them to surrender near the mountain village of Soveria-Mannelli.  Garibaldi entered Naples on September 7, 1860.  (By John Osborne)   

With Garibaldi marching up the Calabrian coast towards Naples, the citizens of the town of Catanzaro announced their support for the Italian nationalist even though royal Bourbon forces still occupied the town.  When these troops marched out to join the troops opposing Garibaldi, locals surrounded and disarmed them.  Garibaldi reached Catanzaro two days later and ended his 250 mile march when he entered Naples on September 7, 1860.  (By John Osborne)   

After his capture of Reggio, Garibaldi began his march up the Calabrian coast towards Naples.  At Villa San Giovanni, he surrounded a large force of the Neapolitan royal army and negotiated its surrender, taking 3,500 prisoners and several field guns.  He released the prisoners to their homes, an action that contributed to his increasingly uncontested march towards the Bourbon capital. He entered Naples on September 7, 1860.  (By John Osborne)   

Only three days earlier, Guiseppe Garibaldi and several thousand of his men had sailed from Giardini in Sicily in the ships Franklin and Torino to invade the Italian mainland.  Landing near Melito, the "Redshirts" advanced on Reggio and took the fortified town after a sharp engagement with Neapolitan royal troops.  Garibaldi then marched up the Calabrian coast against ever-diminishing opposition and entered Naples on September 7, 1860.  (By John Osborne)   

At dusk, Guiseppe Garibaldi and several thousand of his men sailed from Giardini in Sicily in the ships Franklin and Torino to embark on his invasion of the Italian mainland.  The force traveled the thirty miles across the channel without incident and landed the next morning in Calabria near Melito.  The "Redshirts" advanced on Reggio two days later and in three weeks captured Naples. (By John Osborne)