He had just conquered southern Italy. Then he gave it away.

On October 26, 1860, revolutionary general Giuseppe Garibaldi met King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia near Teano, north of Naples. After his famous Expedition of the Thousand had swept through Sicily and the mainland south, Garibaldi greeted Victor Emmanuel as King of Italy, effectively handing over his conquests.

The meeting became a symbol of the Risorgimento. A few months later, in March 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, uniting most of the peninsula for the first time since ancient Rome.

Would you have handed over power the way Garibaldi did?

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