Conwy Wargames Club Feb Saga game

Dave commanding Viking and Pete with Strathclyde Welsh fought it out last Sunday. The Welsh trashed the Vikings.

Pete's warlord

Dave's warlord

All the figures were Petes'.

I caught up with Dave later and he commented that both he and Pete agree that the rules favoured the Strathclyde Welsh. Specifically Pete had the majority of his units off board that allowed him to earn more fatigue tokens to place on the Viking units which they themselves had no real counter. These 2 sides will be fighting again.

1870 The capture of Rome

Porta Pia

Men involved in the attack on the Porta Pia

Attack on the Porta Pia

1862 Garibaldi's expedition to Rome picture

Pictures taken in the Victor Emmanuel monument in 2008.

In 1862 Garibaldi marched on Rome and was stopped by the Piedmontese army to avoid a clash with France who supported the Pope's temporal rule of Rome. The picture is of Garibaldi being treated for a gunshot wound to the foot. 

Wikipedia describes the incident:

General Enrico Cialdini dispatched a division of the regular army, under Colonel Emilio Pallavicini, against the volunteer bands. On 28 August the two forces met in the rugged Aspromonte. One of the regulars fired a chance shot, and several volleys followed, killing a few of the volunteers. The fighting ended quickly, as Garibaldi forbade his men to return fire on fellow subjects of the Kingdom of Italy. Many of the volunteers were taken prisoner, including Garibaldi, who had been wounded by a shot in the foot.

This episode gave birth to a famous Italian nursery rhyme, still known by boys and girls all over the country: Garibaldi fu ferito ("Garibaldi was wounded").