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May 15, 1860

Calatafimi. The Bourbons spot Garibaldi’s famous men on the horizon. To their eyes, they are a rabble of people dressed in the strangest and most diverse garb. The two small, antiquated cannons of the Thousand, which had been taken from Talamone, appear loaded aboard Sicilian carts painted with religious scenes. The Neapolitan soldiers shout: “Come now, come now, you ragged men, you scoundrels, you scoundrels!”