Such, however, was the surprising truth; and, had not the Triumvirate peremptorily ordered Garibaldi to pursue them no further, he would have continued to press them, with the resolution which he had formed, of driving them into the sea.
Garibaldi expresses his personal resolve to relentlessly pursue the retreating French forces, thwarted only by orders from the Triumvirate.
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