Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Aspromonte (Garibaldi's Rising).

Fought August 29, 1862, between a small force of "Red Shirts" under Garibaldi, and the royal troops under General Pallavicini. After a short engagement, in which Garibaldi was wounded, the "Red Shirts," largely outnumbered and surrounded, laid down their arms.