Giuseppe Avezzana

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Giuseppe Avezzana

Giuseppe Avezzana (born February 19, 1797 in Chieri , Piedmont , Italy , † December 25, 1879 in Rome ) was an Italian general and Minister of War of the Roman Republic from 1849 .

Life

Avezzana joined the 4th regiment of the "Honor Guard" in 1805 and fought under Napoleon , in 1814 he became a lieutenant in the Sardinian army . After the failure of the plot in San Salvario, which aimed to obtain a constitution, he fled to Spain in 1812 . Avezzana joined the army of the liberal government there and fought on the side of the Spaniards during the Trienio Liberal , the Spanish Revolution of 1820, but was captured by the French in 1824 and deported to America.

He fled to Mexico and settled in Tampico , where he became an important industrialist and businessman. Avezzena took an active part in the party struggles in the Italian republic even in exile and was appointed General Commanding of Tamaulipas. He returned to Italy in 1848 and became Minister of War of the Roman Republic after serving as General of the National Guard in Genoa in the Genoa Uprising . After their fall, he returned to America in 1849 to his family in New York City . There he was one of the organizers of the "Million Rifles Fund" that campaigned for financial support for Garibaldi in America. As the founder of the Società di Unione e Fratellanza Italiana , an association for neighborhood help, he is considered to be one of the founders of the social cohesion of Italian emigrants, who represented themselves in the establishment of the “ Little Italy ” districts in various cities.

In 1860 he joined Garibaldi and fought in his troops , the "red shirts" in the Battle of Volturno , in 1866 in the Alps and in 1867 organized the invasion of the Papal States . Avezzana was a radical member of the Italian House of Representatives .

In 1878 he became a board member of the Italla irredenta association for the liberation of the Italian brothers under Austrian rule. He died in Rome on December 25, 1879. At his state funeral on December 28, 1879, there were extensive demonstrations by the Italia irredenta .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucy Riall: Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero . Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-300-11212-2 , pp. 296 .
  2. ^ Richard N. Juliani: Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before mass migration . Penn State Press, 1998, ISBN 0-271-01732-5 , pp. 222 .
  3. ↑ a b Christopher Seton-Watson: Italy from Liberalism to Fascism, 1870-1925 . Taylor & Francis, 1981, ISBN 0-416-18940-7 , pp. 106 .
personal data
SURNAME Avezzana, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian general
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Chieri , Piedmont , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1879
Place of death Rome