The Expedition of the Thousand was the campaign in which Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts conquered Sicily and Naples. The brief account identifies it as a contribution to Italian unification, presenting the expedition as a military undertaking whose significance lay beyond its victories in the two territories.

Leader and Forces

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–82) was an Italian patriot and republican. He led the expedition with guerrilla forces known as the Redshirts; the account identifies the campaign’s leader and fighting force but gives no further details about the expedition’s size, route, or individual engagements.

Conquests and Significance

The campaign’s stated achievements were the conquests of Sicily and Naples. Those gains contributed to the unification of Italy, linking the expedition’s specific territorial successes to a broader national outcome. The evidence does not describe how the conquests unfolded or specify the expedition’s immediate aftermath.