Show I till i e i c Twenty wen Women omen Soldiers o of the World or I I I F i Anita Garibaldi Wife and Warrior I 13 To have been the wife of Joseph Jo eph Garl Gari Garlt Garibaldi t bald baldi the great Italian liberator poet J t I novelist soldier of qt liberty Ilbery and the if Washington of ot hie ide hi Country would have bave r 2 i i j been Itself distinction enough to have h t t t Riven Anita AnIU an all honorable place pace in the history of lit mankind but to have also aleo aI o I been comrade in arms arms ann toI to I t tj have hare shared with him his hie furious bat batu j Dee u perilous marches and innumerable e a adventures by flood and ald field fled ae as Anita I L i I did clearly entitles her Mr to high honor K t bi in her own right ht The warm Imagination of ot Garibaldi I t 1 himself It could scarcely have conjectured t t i t the tile strange stran e and romantic events eventa which e I brought together from the antipodes a af al s l f pair so eo wonderfully adapted to each i other While they lived they were t r rt something more than husband hu band and wife j and when she died the tile resolute re soldier who had smiled at al almost every variety ti J of o misfortune n said ald Since Anita died my heart is withered Garibaldi was wag born at Nice Italy on July 22 1807 1107 He came of a line of sail sailors 11 ors ore of ot humble rank and from them he heti ti 11 doubtless Inherited the physical vigor ad and bold Independent spirit which aft afterwards afterwards wards distinguished him At 27 Yi years yeas of ot age he embraced the republican Ideas of Joined the Carbonarl Carbonari a se secret secret secret cret society devoted to a free and united unit united united ed Italy and in 1814 took part in an up uprising uprising uprising rising under The insurrection Insurrection tion tailed failed through treachery tre chery and Inadequate Inadequate Inadequate quate preparation and Garibaldi die dis disguised guised gual under a false name fled to South America with a price upon his head hed Here he took service under the little republic of ot Rio Grande Just then en engaged engaged engaged in to a forlorn war with the em emperor emperor emperor of ot Brazil and here after a shipwreck ship shipwreck i wreck on the coast of St Catherine in which most of his comrades perished I Garibaldi first met Anita He had ob obtained obtained I command of ot another small ves wee vessel eel sel and was lying anchored near the shore one I day lonely and melancholy from the recent loss 1088 of ot his dearest friends and longing for human sympathy sympathy thy and affection lf when suddenly the greatest g emotion of his life lif seized himIn him himIn himIn In his hi he says The manse man e of Le Bana was not far distant and from rom my ship I could dis die discover discover cover pretty young girls girts occupied in va Ya various various rious domestic employments One of them attracted my particular attention I was ordered on shore and immediate immediately ly directed ed my steps toward the house OO been upon which my looks ha had been so long fixed My heart beat but It contained however agitated it might be one of i those resolutions which never knew dim diminution dimInution mutton A man invited me to enter I should have entered even If It I had been forbidden J I saw the young girl and said eald to her Malden Maiden thou shall be bemine bemine bemine mine I had by these words created a atie atie atie tie which death alone could break Anita at the time not out of ot her herteen teens teen was dark like a tropical Creole but possessed a singular grace and a perfect physique She was betrothed to toa toa toa a rich elderly man of the neighbor neighborhood neighborhood hood but the lion wooing of the dash dashIng dashIng dashing Ing sailor overcame all aU scruples and she embarked on her lovers vessel to commence com commence commence mence a honeymoon of ot war Long Lone aft afterwards afterwards afterwards in Italy a formal ceremony of marriage was celebrated between them more mor for the sake of their children than for tor themselves them Shortly after the elopement Anita had her first experience of ot battle Garibaldi di with two small vessels one of them quite disabled was approached by b three well wen equipped Brazilian warships in the Bay of ot Imbituba Escape was impossible ble surrender bt to be thought of ot Foreseeing the desperate nature of the impending fight fI ht Garibaldi implored An Anita AnIta AnIta ita to go ashore but she refused and andon andon andon on deck carbine in la a hand she took part partin in the fight A cannon ball ban crashed Into the vessel killing two men and I prostrating Anita Her Injuries were not severe however r and when her frightened husband begged her to go below she replied Yes I will but only to turn out the cowards who have concealed them themselves themselves themselves selves there And shortly she reap reappeared reappeared reappeared on deck driving before her three of the crew who had less leas le courage than the woman The won the battle and thenceforward for six stormy yeas years ears Anita had won aron the right to fight by tip the side of her heroic in the wild vicissitudes of ot the South American wars The story of o her daring exploits in the field on the march In desperate de operate assaults and perilous retreats seems In Incredible Incredible incredible credible but Garibaldi himself In a simple and evidently truthful spirit isone Is Isone Isone one of the witnesses As an illustration of her extraordinary fortitude he gives the following In September of 1840 Garibaldi fought a desperate battle against overwhelming odds and was beaten Anita who had received no injury except the loss of a alock alock lock loek of hair by a passing p bullet lingered upon the field under the impression that her husband hu was killed or wound wounded ed and while searching for him she was captured by the enemy The Brazilian commander allowed her to make a thorough thor thorough thorough ough search for her husband among the dead and wounded Convinced at last that Garibaldi was still living she re resolved resoled resolved solved soled upon escape A few ew nights afterwards aft afterwards while the camp was given up to drunkenness and confusion she man managed managed managed aged to elude her guards and darted into the th wild Ild forest The following morning she obtained a horse and acup a acup acup cup of coffee at a ranch upon which she had bad stumbled and then for four days she struggled forward orward through the wilderness toward the nearest friendly post Oe Oahe her horse fell and knocked her senseless but she recovered and pushed onward rd Once On e she was compelled com compelled to swim a flooded river clinging to her horses mane For four days without food traversing forests orests climb climbing climbing ing rocky hills hUls and daring the beasts and serpents of the reedy Jungles jungle she pushed on until she arrived at and fell into the arms anns of the distracted Garibaldi A few days after this adventure her child Menotti was born Hers was the mingled heroism of mother and warrior In 1847 Garibaldi had gotten through with his American wars wan and was waa pursuing pur pursuing pursuing suing the calling of o a cattle trader at Montevideo But fate had not dis discharged discharged discharged charged him from her turbulent fields One day da he got stirring news from ItaW Ital The irrepressible Mazzini had gotten another revolution afoot atoot and the flag of ot Ua a free and united Italy was again flying Instantly Garibaldi was afire with the passion of ot battle He took up subscriptions manned a II vessel ve el with a lot of his old companions and andset andset andset set sail March 27 1 1848 Anita con constructed constructed constructed a Sardinian flag out of a sheet and the red and blue materials of an old uniform and under this banner at that time the colors of of ot Italian moiled in re revolt revolt volt these disciples of liberty sailed Into new storm area a In June they arrived at Nice and Im Immediately immediately mediately Garibaldi found himself elf a at atthe atthe tu the head of considerable forces ce Unfortunately Unfortunately the h volunteers were mostly un untrained untrained Untrained trained without adequate te arms and n without funds But Garibaldi of was him himself self sel a host and in the year of conflict ade which followed he made of himself and his red legion a startling Inspiring never to be for forgotten gotten With both Austria and France leagued against the revolution the task before Garibaldi allowed him nothing but the e chance of ot final defeat with glory Through of his desperate struggles struggles struggles strangely Anita was with him combining the offices of wife mother his h s and soldier She was with him In heroic defense of Rome In June c and July of ot 1849 and when defense was no longer Ion get possible and Garibaldi disdain disdaining disdainIng disdaining ing surrender undertook the desperate expedient of cutting his way out Anita rejected her husbands advice to seek refuge In San Marino and resolutely accompanied d him In a retreat which proved to be a running battle lasting for many man days and nights The fatigue hunger and exposure were too much for tor the little brown wom woman woman woman an and after a futile attempt to es escape escape escape cape In n boats upon the Adriatic Adri tlc Garibald Gari Garibaldi Garibaldi baldi bald carried her a ashore chore and In a corn om cornfield cornfield field with her head upon her husbands knee e she t ly w lies battle Garibaldi suc succeeded deded I in inIng InIng Ing ng her to a cottage some wie mlles miles ate but her was gone goDe and sert she i In his arms and was buried burled in th tile the It is a fitting climax to Anita Anitas that Garibaldi escaped that In M again In 1867 1861 7 he returned to Itai Ita Italy head new net revolts revolt and that In the I to one battles b fn that followed t and eventuated in a free and united I Iotti two Menotti Anitas sons eons and Ri otti wore the red shirts and ft mt ru at their fathers side |