garibaldi

Garibaldi was a great general but he was always snubbed by the Kingdom of Sardinia because he was a republican,he was first exiled and even when he later wanted to help the Sardinians unite Italy he was sent to fight on secondary fronts,what would have happened instead if he had been a...

Introduction By Andronico Barbero At the present day, the Kingdom of the Italians (as the Greater Italian Federation is most commonly known) is one of the most fascinating and self-contradictory countries of the world. A constitutional monarchy made up of Kingdoms, Republics, Free Cities and...

Italy was founded as a monarchy in 1861, and didn't become a republic until after World War 2. However, what if Italy was founded as a republic under Garibaldi and Crispi? The main POD I thought of for this scenario would be that Garibaldi never surrenders his army to Victor Emmanuel after the...

As we all know due to an invigorated sense of piety combined with nationalism in the mid-1800s in Italy the papal states led by the pope eventually created an Italian confederation with himself at the head. However the short-lived prime minister of piedmont-sardinia Camillo Benso wanted the...

What if Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italy's unification (and an ardent anticlericalist), had not hesitated to order his republican army to fire on Papal and Piedmontese troops at the Battle (more accurately a skirmish) of Aspromonte in august 1862, thus effectively declaring war and splitting...