The town is famous for having been used as a stronghold by the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Nino Bixio for their conquest of Palermo in 1860 during the Expedition of the Thousand.
On 4 November 1847, he made himself conspicuous at Genoa by seizing the bridle of Charles Albert's horse and crying, "Pass the Ticino, Sire, and we are all with you."
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On 16 December 1873, he died of cholera at Aceh Bay in Sumatra en route for Batavia (modern day Jakarta), where he was slated to take command of a commercial expedition.
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At Bronte, on August 4, 1860, the recovered Bixio bloodily repressed one of these revolts with two battalions of Redshirts.
El Niño | Nino Rota | Nino Manfredi | Nino Frassica | El Niño (Def Squad album) | Nino Ricci | Nino Del Pesco | Nino Cocchiarella | Nino Cerruti | Nino Borsari | Nino Bixio | Juan Niño de Tabora | El Niño (oratorio) | Ali and Nino | Uncle Nino | Santo Niño de Atocha | Pedro Alonso Niño | Nino Taranto | Nino Salukvadze | Nino Rivera | Niño Ricardo | Nino Marcelli | Niño Josele | Nino Fernandez | Nino de Angelo | Nino D'Angelo - Alberto Amato | Nino D'Angelo | Nino Bravo | Nino Benvenuti | Nino and the Ebb Tides |
In the 1850s he was one of the main members of the Mazzinian committee in Genoa, together with Giacomo Medici, Nino Bixio and Benedetto Cairoli.