Giacomo Medici (General)

Giacomo Medici ( born January 16, 1817 in Milan, † March 9, 1882 in Rome ) was an Italian general and politician.

Life

Medici was involved early in the Italian unification movement. In 1836 he went into exile in Portugal, where he fought with his father against the Carlists. In 1840 lived Medici in London, where she learned to know Giuseppe Mazzini, 1846 in Montevideo, Giuseppe Garibaldi.

By Garibaldi in 1848 he went to Milan and then fought in the first Italian War of Independence in Northern Italy. In 1849 he took part in the defense of the Roman Republic, where he was in the battles around the villa Vascello at Porta San Pancrazio particularly distinguished, and for the title of Marchese del Vascello received.

In the second war of independence in 1859, he was a battalion commander in Garibaldi Alpine hunters, with whom he fought in the battles of Varese and San Fermo. In 1860 he organized Garibaldi train the thousands and came up with the second contingent to Sicily, where he took part in the battle of Milazzo, and yet at the siege of Messina. On the mainland, he led voluntary associations in the decisive battle of the Volturno. Shortly thereafter, he was taken with many stalwarts of the regular Italian army and used in Sicily. In 1866 he fought at the head of regular associations still in Trentino.

Giacomo Medici in 1868, provided with extensive powers Prefect of Palermo. 1870 appointed him king Victor Emmanuel II as a senator for life.