A lieutenant in the Royal Navy who served in South America, the Crimea and China, Charles Stuart Forbes (1829-76) was one of the many Englishmen who volunteered to support Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Risorgimento. Garibaldi (1807-82) was an immensely popular figure in England, often being identified with English heroes of the past. Streets, food and clothing were named in his honour, while Queen Victoria commented that he was 'honest, disinterested and brave'. Published in 1861, Forbes' work tells, mostly through letters, of the progress of the last territorial conquest before the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. From Forbes we learn something of the messianic character attributed to Garibaldi: 'I have many times been told, in all sincerity by the peasants, that he is the brother of the Redeemer.' This remains a valuable first-hand account of some of the most important events in the founding of modern Italy.

The nineteenth century saw an influx of British travellers to Iceland, drawn by growing interest in its saga literature or by the potential for scientific discovery offered by its volcanic and glacial landscapes. Charles Stuart Forbes (1829-76), an officer in the Royal Navy, was one of these adventurers. In this work, first published in 1860, he gives a vivid and detailed account of his journeys across the island, conveying his wonder at its natural phenomena and sharing his observations on its history, culture and way of life. A fervent supporter of Garibaldi, Forbes went on to publish in 1861 The Campaign of Garibaldi in the Two Sicilies (also reissued in this series). While making little reference here to the growing movement for independence from Denmark, the present work, written with colour and wit, remains an engaging source of information on Iceland.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE IDEA OF NATIONALITY. CHAPTER III. THE FIRST EXPEDITION. The dream which eventually cost the hero of Tro- cadero his crown, and that vision which has been the redeeming feature of the restless career of the arch- agitator of Italy, though not realised, was embodied at Villafranca. The idea of nationality, shadowed forth in the suggestion of an Italian federation, grew none the less rapidly because discussed by rival emperors, though statesmen still maintained that Italians were unfit for self-government, and were induced, by their rancorous local prejudices, to insist that a dual, rather than a united Italy, was the only practical solution. The instinct of self-preservation was rapidly obliterating these local barriers, and engrafting on the minds of Southern Italians the conviction that the only healthy and permanent relief from Austrian and Papal misrule was to be sought for in Italian unity. They saw their fellow-countrymen in Lombardy and POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CAUSES. 9 Central Italy, whose position but a few short months previous had been as wretched as their own, enjoying the fruits of annexation to Piedmont; and they yearned for the day when, by a similar expression of the national will, they might be emancipated from governments which had long since not only become a public scandal in Europe, but a manifest absurdity, and which were rendered still more impossible by the proximity of constitutional Piedmont, since that kingdom had righteously become more than ever the refuge of all that was.just and honourable in Italy. Apart from the political aspect of the movement, the desire of emancipation from priestcraft was a most powerful lever. Men had long since been asking themselves why the Italian clergy should be allowed to exercise temporal power any m...

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Garibaldi war eine bestimmende Person in den Italienischen Einigungskriegen. 1860 segelte er mit Tausend Mann nach S den (Zug der Tausend), um Sizilien und Neapel zu befreien und dem K nigreich Sardinien zuzuf hren. Mit dem Krieg gegen sterreich 1866 wurde die italienische Einigung dann wenige Jahre sp ter nahezu fertiggestellt. Nachdruck des Originals von 1861.