Friday - General Giuseppe Garibaldi dies in Caprera at 75 years. At the funeral that will take place the next day 8 with the honors rendered by a gunshot of the gunboat Charybdis at the mooring in the neighboring island of La Maddalena, the highest civil and military authorities will participate.

Among these are the vice-presidents of the Senate and the Chamber (Alfieri di Sostegno and Giuseppe Farini), the Hon. Francesco Crispi who will hold the funeral oration and General Ferrero representing the Army General Staff, arrived from Civitavecchia aboard the hydrographic vessel Washington and the vessel captain Tòmaso di Savoia Duke of Genoa representing King Umberto arrived from Civitavecchia with the notice Explorer.

Because of his strong sense of justice and freedom, becoming an active part of the first South American and then Italian populations (he was a key element for national unification), he acquired the name of Hero of the two worlds.

Little known is having named the first capital of Italy when, in Sicily, after the famous landing of the thousand and proclaiming Duce of the island, it symbolically donated this conquest to the King (Vittorio Emanuele II) and in this that was the embryo of the unification of Italy, appoints the town of SALEMI the nation's capital.

Source: Military Navy