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On the ist and 2nd of October 1860 a battle was fought on the Volturno victor between 20,000 Garibaldians, many of them raw levies, and 35,000 Bourbon troops, and although at first a Garibaldian division under Tiirr was repulsed, Garibaldi himself arrived in time to turn defeat into victory..

It is a bronze statuette from Sessa on the Volturno, about 2 ft.

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He became abbe of St Vincent on the Volturno "in the time of Desiderius, king of the Lombards."

gen f we do not arrive at the Volturno before Garibaldi reachts Cattolica, Cavour had said, the monarchy is lost, and Italy ~re 1 remain in the prison-house of the Revolution.

east of the city of that name, brings down a considerable body of water; as does also the Volturno, which rises in the mountains between Castel di Sangro and Agnone, flows past Isernia, Venafro and Capua, and enters the sea about 15 m.

bank of the Volturno, near S.

of the Caudine Forks, and so beyond Telese joins the Volturno.

VOLTURNO (anc. Volturnus, from volvere, to roll), a river of central Italy, which rises in the neighbourhood of Alfedena in the central Apennines of Samnium, runs S.

On the 1st of October he routed the remnant of the Bourbon army 40,000 strong on the Volturno.