On that day I felt a solemn impression on my heart, mingled with bitterness, like the feelings of warriors left languishing on a field of battle, and trampled on by the insolent soldier, by the hoof of the war-horse of the cruel, the implacable conqueror.
Garibaldi vividly describes the profound bitterness and despair he felt on a day of defeat, likening it to the suffering of vanquished warriors.
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