Battle of Aspromonte

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Battle of Aspromonte
Garibaldi wounded at Aspromonte, by Gerolamo Induno
Date 29 August 1862 Location Aspromonte, Calabria, Italy Result Regular army victory
Belligerents
Royal Italian Army	Garibaldi's volunteers
Commanders and leaders
Emilio Pallavicini [it]	Giuseppe Garibaldi (WIA)
Strength
3,000 regulars	2,000 volunteers
Casualties and losses
5 dead, 23 injured	7 dead, 20 injured

The Battle of Aspromonte, also known as the Day of Aspromonte (Italian: Giornata dell'Aspromonte), was a minor engagement that took place on 29 August 1862, and was an inconclusive episode of the Italian unification process. It is named after the nearby mountain of Aspromonte in southern Italy. Giuseppe Garibaldi's army of volunteers was attacked by the Royal Italian Army while marching from Sicily towards Rome, capital of the Papal States, which it intended to annex into the newly created Kingdom of Italy. In the fighting, which took place a few kilometers from Gambarie, Garibaldi was wounded and taken prisoner.^{[1]: 331–335}