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قراءة كتاب Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy
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ILLUSTRATIONS
| Page | |
| “Frank engaged in a tough fight with the officer who held the flag” | Frontis. 145 |
| “Walking up and down the room like a caged lion” | 35 |
| “His assailant fell back and disappeared” | 91 |
| “The hinges of the door were broken off” | 161 |
| “In her excitement she fell on her knees” | 205 |
| “‘Silence, signors!’ he said in a loud voice” | 244 |
| “It was not until Nullo ordered four men to load ... that he would answer” | 307 |
| “He went up to Percival and put his hand on his shoulder” | 337 |
| Map showing Position of the Opposing Forces round Capua | 313 |
| Plan of the Battle of the Volturno | 319 |
OUT WITH GARIBALDI.
CHAPTER I.
AWAITING THE ATTACK.
ON April 29th, 1849, two men were seated in a room whose open windows commanded a view down the Tiber. A sound of confused uproar rose from the city.
“I am afraid, Leonard,” the elder of the two men said, “that the crisis is at hand. The news that the French are landing to-day at Civita Vecchia is ominous indeed. It is true that Oudïnot has sent a message saying that the flag he has hoisted is that of peace and order. The people will not believe that he comes as an enemy; but, for my part, I have no doubt of it.”
“Nor have I,” the other replied. “It was bad enough that we had Austria against us, Sardinia powerless, and all the princelings of Italy hostile; but that France, having proclaimed herself a republic, should now interfere to crush us and to put the Pope back upon his throne is nothing short of monstrous. I feared that it would be so, but Mazzini had so much faith in his influence with members of the French Assembly that he has buoyed up the hopes of the populace, and even now the people generally believe that the French come as friends.”
“It is doubtless the influence of their new president, Napoleon, that has turned the scale against us,” the other said gloomily. “I do not suppose that he cares about the Pope one way or the other, but it is his interest to pose as his champion. By so doing he will gain the good opinion of Austria, of Naples, and the ducal rulers of the Italian states. Even Prussia, protestant as she is, would view with satisfaction the suppression of a rising like ours, for her throne well-nigh tottered in last year’s explosion. Russia, too, which perhaps more than any other power has reason to fear a popular rising, would feel grateful to Napoleon for undertaking to crush free thought in Rome. It is evident that the French President’s move is a politic one. Do you think that we shall fight, Leonard?”
“I fancy so. I have no belief in Mazzini’s courage, president though he may be. Garibaldi is the popular hero, and I know him well enough to be sure that if he has but a handful of men to back him he will fight till the end. We had the odds as heavily against us when we were comrades-in-arms at Rio, with but the Susie and