Giuseppe Garibaldi

Its first teacher was Elizabeth Whitehead , later the founder of the Working Women's College . Its eighty pupils included Catholics, Jews, Unitarians, and freethinkers. The school, which was heavily subsidised by Smith and cost...

She worked as a field nurse for Garibaldi 's Redshirts during several campaigns. During the Sicilian campaign, she, Alberto , and Garibaldi travelled the countryside to inspect local prisons and hospitals. Alberto was given the...

Though only twenty-eight, JWM acted as field hospital director at Caserta and Santa Maria during Garibaldi's Neapolitan campaign, often working under horrid conditions. In honour of her dedication, she was presented with a gold medal...

To get to France she travelled by train, both miliary and civilian, as well as dog-cart. This was to be her last rush into battle. Although present primarily as a reporter, she also attended to...

After the end of the Italian Risorgimento, JWM and her circle scorned the newly-established Italian royal family. They were dissatisfied with the regime established by Garibaldi , and hoped to see the establishment of a republic.

After returning to Italy from Switzerland, JWM and her husband sailed aboard the Washington from Genoa to Sicily as part of Garibaldi 's invading fleet.

JWM and her husband crossed from Sicily to mainland Italy with a regiment of soldiers loyal to Italian nationalist Garibaldi .

During the Austro-Prussian War (or Seven Weeks war), JWM followed Italian nationalist Garibaldi into battle in the Tyrol, acting again as a field nurse to the wounded.

In contrast to her refusal to commit herself publicly on domestic politics, EG supported the struggle for Italian independence. Her name appeared on a petition spearheaded by Florence Nightingale in support of Garibaldi 's troops...

Garibaldi wrote to her before the expedition with the warning that Mazzini's plan was destined to fail. She was imprisoned for four months, all the while maintaining her innocence and demanding a trial. She later...

EBB was again much involved in sympathy with Italian hopes for independence and liberal reform, while Garibaldi as military leader and Cavour as statesman orchestrated the campaign which in October 1860 made Victor Emmanuel II

While studying at the Sorbonne , Jessie White (later JWM ) travelled with friends to Italy, where she met Garibaldi .

JWM made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer...

JWM published her accounts of the Franco-Prussian War in the Scotsman after joining Garibaldi 's troops while they fought alongside their former enemy, France.

FMP published in the Cornhill Magazine reminiscences of her uncle Colonel John Whitehead Peard and of Garibaldi , with whose forces Colonel Peard had fought in Italy.