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Nashville Patriot
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
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Italian correspondent describes meeting Garibaldi's unnamed English soldier in Milan, who efficiently targets Austrian officers using a servant to reload his six-shot revolver, showing indifference to his heroic actions.
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The Italian correspondent of the New York Times writes:
"I posted my last letter at Milan on the 30th ult, and since then have visited Piacenza, Modena, Bologna, and Perugia. Just before leaving Milan, I saw at a cafe, the famous Englishman who has rendered such signal service in Garibaldi's corps. He is about middle age, and dressed in bottle green, and possesses the most indifferent, passive physique imaginable. A young volunteer who was with me described his mode of fight. He is accompanied by a servant, who carries his six barreled revolving musket, and loads while his master with his opera glass spies out Austrian epaulettes. One, two, three, four, five, six. The servant re-takes the revolver, the master applies his glass, and so on. Throughout the fight he is apparently indifferent to the enthusiasm he excites, and quite unaware that he is doing uncommon things."
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Milan
Event Date
30th Ult.
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An Italian correspondent saw a famous middle-aged English soldier in Garibaldi's corps at a cafe in Milan just before leaving. The soldier, dressed in bottle green with a passive physique, fights by using an opera glass to spot Austrian epaulettes while his servant loads a six-barreled revolving musket, firing six shots per cycle. He remains indifferent to the enthusiasm he excites.