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pa•ement amidst the horeet1 and the baggage ; but some more fortunate
had obtained quarters in printe houses, without. the knowledge or their
respective chiefs. These could not hear or reeei•e the order for depat"
ture, while ·others, trusting to the proposed by the enemy, resoh•ed
to accept the general's dismissal. Owing· to· these t-wo causes Garibaldi
was followed by no more than 200 officers and soldien.

The little band had decamped two heurs before their departure was
known in the AU8trian camp. This surprising news was immediately
forwarded to Rimini. It would be difficult to C1Jrm an ideo. of the rage
Gorzgowski experienced at seeing the Guerillero escape him, were not a
proclamation addressed by him to the inhabitants still in CTidencc. As
innlting in his language as he was brutal in his actions, the Austrian
general threatend to shoot, on the spot, any one who gave '!Dater, bread, or
fire to Garjbaldi or his followers, whom he treated as bandits and ma:le­
factors who had cheated the gallows: and, as if the heroes could not be
recognised . by this. description, the unworthy general was careful to add
that Garibaldi was accompanied by a woman who was in the sixth month
of her pregnancy. On the rooming ofA:.ugnst 1st, the ferocious German ,
in the hope of again checking the mOYement o( the Guerillero, marched
on Cesenatico, and V erucchio with his troops ; but he found
himself a day's march behind, and was soon obliged to resign all hopes
of preventing the embarkation. Garibaldi, in fact1 on arriving 'at Cesena·
tico, had made some Aulltriaus, he foWld there, prisoners, and protecting
h.i.mllelf against any surprise by baiTicades, he had time to prepare the
Tet!llel and provisions, and put out to sea, before the troops in pursuit had
reached the place.

More than a thoMand ofticen or soltliers belonging to the disbanded
column remained at San Marino. The sudden departure of tho general
had caused consternation to those among them who had wished to· share
with him all the Ticissitutles of the retreat., Many lamenting their own
carelessness on that luckless night, wandered · about among the moun­
tains in search of Garibaldi, disdaining to submit to the good pleasure of
the enemy. Others trusting in the execution of the proposed agreement,
dared to hope safety in the Austrians' good faith, and decided to give up all
hostility ; they were waiting to learn to whom they should surrender their
arms, and proceed to their homes. As regards the last, it is evident
that the general's departure could change nothing in the conditions
offered by the enemy ; still, this is what happened:­

On the morning of August hi, an Austrian ofllcer made his appearance
at Marino, who, in the name of the Archduke Ernest, commanding

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the blockading forces, intimated to the government the order to conclude
the o11'ered the previous day to the Ga.riba ldians. In case or
refusal, the city would be occupied by troops, all the foreigners made
prison.ers, and the leut attempt at resistance, punished with the utmost
rigor. The Regent to whom the majority of the eoldiers had already
pused their word to execute the agreement, assured tho archducal enYoy
that by mid-day the territory of the Republic should be freed from the
lut rc!publican. To the great surprise of all the officer then insisted oo.
the change of one article in the capitulation. It had been agreed that
each 11oldier, on surrendering his arms, should receive a regular passport,
allowing him to return home in all safety ; but it wu now proposed to
deliver them ably rated as far as Rimini, where the disbanded meo.
wouldl await the final determination of General Gorzgowski. The officer,
howe,rer, pledged his word of honour, that this was merely a precau­
tionB.l'Y measure, and that not a single hair of their head would be
touched. On the assurance of a man who was supposed incapable of
o11'ering a trap, the arms were given up. After their receipt the govern­
ment of San Marino generously emptied the public treasury in giving a
viaticum to the old defenders of Rome; and at eleven in the morning,
about' 900 men, in small detachments, marched to Rimini. 'Ve shall see
prcseutly how the unhappy men fared, who had the imprudence to put
faith in the Austrians ; but we must now return to our hero.

Thirteen fishing boats belonging to Chioggia, received on board Gari­
baldi and the men who followed him, in the port of Cesenatico. On the
morning of August 2, the small flotilla lifted their anchors and steered
in direction of Venice. The bold navigators were full of hope; for
they believed the object of their fruition was at last within their grasp,
that object for whose sake they had feared no privation, and shunned no
peril.. A fresh breeze blew in the direetion of Venice, and the whole dsy
was 11pent beneath a g'loriously serene sky, and in the formation of the
most seductive prospects. The boats of the flotilla were steered by the
most faithful and devoted Volunteers of the American legion, who, after
having fought by Garibaldi's side afloat and ashore, without ever wishiag
to leiLve him, had survived, though few in number, the combats of Italy.

Th.e fishermen, though skilied in managing their boats in waters they
were acquainted with, trembled at the thought of falling into the hands
of the AustrianJ. To insure the success of the expedition, all engaged
in it ought to have been willing to run any risk to reach the shore ; but
the few brave men, capable of managing veaaele, were not sufficient, and
they were compelled to trust to the fishermen and good fortune. At

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