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84 GENERAL GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI

Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers Corps

1 st Regiment Dragoons: col. Savini 4 sqdn 400 men
2 nd Regiment Dragoons: col. Rovinetti 2 » 140 »
Mounted Carabinieri: maj. Tomba 2 » 200 »
Garibaldi’s Lancers: col. Masina 1 » 90 »
Sappers Engineers: col. Amadei - 600 »
Artillery Regiment: Calandrelli
and Lopez - 100 »
Swiss Battery: col. De Seré - 100 »
Bolognese Battery - 500 »
Civic Artillery - 220 »
Provincial Artillery Groups (3) - 60 »
Gun artificer deposit - 100 »
Provender and ambulances - 250 »

Total 9 sqdn 2760 men

General Total: about 20,000 men, 180 horses,108 pieces.

However, at least half of the forces listed above were still outside the city
the day when the French arrived at its walls. With the 10,000 men present
inside the city and the attack immanent, four brigades were formed, led
respectively by Garibaldi (Italian Legion, students, emigrants, veterans and
custom soldiers), Masi (Papal Troops and National Guards), Savini
(Dragoons), Galletti (1 st and 2 nd regular regiments and Roman Legion).
Additional troops were the Lombard Bersaglieri, the Carabinieri, the Artillery
and the Engineers.
The latter (Engineers), led by Colonel Amadei, (who had moved from
the Neapolitan Army to the Papal Army) were formed by about 600 men; but
a larger number would have been necessary to organise the defence of the
city’s vast perimeter, surrounded of course by walls, but not so strong to
oppose resistance to the enemy’s artillery and most of all to the work of the
French Engineers, who were led by an expert in fortifications of European
renown, General Vaillant.