Garibaldi Lands at Marsala

May 11, 1860

With a thousand red-shirted volunteers on two rickety steamers, Giuseppe Garibaldi landed on the western tip of Sicily and, in three months, overran the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He handed it to Victor Emmanuel in a handshake at Teano and retired, famously, to a farm on the island of Caprera. Italy was nearly whole.