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Giuseppe Garibaldi: “You despised their counsels, and I thank you for it, you invincible people of the barricades.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1860
You despised their counsels, and I thank you for it, you invincible people of the barricades.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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From a speech in Palermo, praising the people for rejecting opposing advice and their revolutionary spirit.

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