Battle of Calatafimi

Battle of Calatafimi
	Part of the Expedition of the Thousand
	; Skirmish at Calatafimi
Date	15 May 1860
Location	Calatafimi, Sicily
Result	Two Sicilies forces retreat ; Garibaldi takes Calatafimi
Belligerents
Red Shirts	Two Sicilies
Commanders and leaders
Giuseppe Garibaldi	Francesco Landi
Strength
1,200	2,000
Casualties and losses
32 killed; 160-182 wounded	36 killed ; 148 wounded ; 6 captured; 1 gun captured

The Battle of Calatafimi was fought on the 15 May 1860 between Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts and the troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at Calatafimi, Sicily, as part of the Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: I Mille). The battle was the first of Garibaldi's victory during his invasion of Sicily in 1860 and saw his 'Thousand' defeat a larger Neapolitan army sent from Palermo to block the roads to the Sicilian capital.

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