Different circumstances led to this result, which would require much time to give in detail: but the chief cause was the discord fomented by the ambition of a few, which plunged all into disaster, and exposed them to extermination by an implacable conqueror.
Analyzing the reasons for a military defeat, Garibaldi identifies internal discord and ambition as the primary causes of disaster.
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To arms all!—all!—and the oppressors, the supremely powerful, shall be turned into dust.
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