Irish soldiers in Italy, 1860
July 10th, 2012 Tagged with: Battaglione San Patrizio • Irlanda • Laval Nugent • Myles O'Reilly • Order of Malta • Pope Pius IX • Risorgimento • St. Patrick • storia militare • The Last CrusadeIn the spring and summer of 1860 more than a thousand Irishmen participated in an extraordinary adventure travelling to Italy to fight for the Pope, Pius IX in a little-known chapter of the Risorgimento, the Read more…