From Garibaldi's brief account, it would almost seem that the Triumvirate and the Assembly surrendered Rome before absolute necessity constrained them

. . . the small forces at the disposal of the Republic should be husbanded for the repulse of others besides France, who claimed to be defenders of

Garibaldi altered in nothing his South American modes of warfare.Continuing Garibaldi and the Roman Republic,our selection from The Birth of

But only when it was known that the French Republic had voted an expedition, with the specious object of guaranteeing the independence of the supreme