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Italian condottieri. Named for his place of birth near Turin, he entered military service at age 12 with a company of condottieri hired by Milan. When he was just 30 he took command of an army of mercenaries and led them to quick success in a Milanese civil war over the ducal succession. In 1422 […]

Born in Nice to a sea captain father, the young Garibaldi was a professional revolutionary. He took part in the Mazzinian uprising against the Piedmontese monarchy in 1834 and, following its suppression, was condemned to death for his role in the fighting. Garibaldi, however, had fled to Brazil. There, he met his first wife, Anita, […]

<img data-attachment-id="54918" data-permalink="https://web.archive.org/web/20220808171459/https://weaponsandwarfare.com/gettyimages-535823751-2048×2048-1/" data-orig-file="https://web.archive.org/web/20220808171459/https://weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/gettyimages-535823751-2048×2048-1.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,1424" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"Universal Images Group via Getty","camera":"","caption":"Benito Mussolini with a department of R. S. I. Italian Social Republic in 1944. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images […]