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202: 247: 215: 235: 461: 144: 22: 446:. The Italians uncoordinately tried to recover the lost town. Garibaldi himself, moving on the battlefield in a coach because of a wound from a previous encounter, was in danger of being captured. The Italian artillery took a hill close to the town, and an assault by the Italian infantry caused the Austrians to withdraw to their emplacements in the surrounding mountains, thus marking an Italian victory that cost many casualties. 475: 457:, commander-in-chief of the Piedmontese army, to abandon Trentino. On that occasion, in the square of Bezzecca, Giuseppe Garibaldi replied with the famous telegram, with only one word: "Obbedisco!" ("I obey!"). 314: 365: 307: 514: 360: 300: 449:
While Garibaldi was preparing to continue the invasion toward Garda to take the forts of Lardaro, on 9 August he received the message of the
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as part of the general Italian offensive against the Austrian force occupying north-eastern Italy after the decisive Prussian victory of
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Third Italian War of Independence

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Trentino
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