continue to publish the contribution of on Franco Di Fede Torre Faro and Cape Pelorus. The article was divided and will be completed over the next few days.
FOR THE FIRST TIME a likely scenario:
THREE GUNS WERE THE FORT BROUGHT TO LIGHT TOWER BY A FREIGHT TRAIN NAVAL ENGLISH
ON August 10, 1718
A Peloro , a beautiful Sunday morning of August 10, 1718 , in the heart of the hot Sicilian summer, it happened that the Fleet Naval War of HM , coming directly from ' England and consists of 25 Ships First and Second row, 2 and 2 Brulotte Palandri controlled by 'Admiral BINCHE , appeared at the mouth of the Strait of Messina route from the north-west. And as he pressed on time and broke the fury of the rows of descending was forced to dig deep to anchor near the coast between the beaches and Mortelle White Tower, cheer with highlights from the muskets of the crews of ships British Transport , that preceded it some time before a full load of men, weapons, artillery, ammunition and provisions. Then a Garrison made British Military took possession of the old Torre del Faro replacing the Presidio English soldiers that the day before had left her precipitously and that belonged to the expeditionary force led by the Marquis DE LEDE , landed July 2, 1718 at Palermo and was appointed Viceroy in the name of Philip V of Spain with the intention of regaining Sicily.
At that time the Government of the British Crown was interested in the English possessions in Italy and a stable presence in Sicily , while he was going to stop much of the expansionist Spain , instead insisted on wanting to regain possession of Sicily . All this happened while he was ruling the former Duke of Savoy, Vittorio Amedeo II, King of Sicily 24 December 1713 (rule until 1720).
We can assume that this convoy by British transport were dropped three muzzleloading guns unearthed the so-called fort Garibaldi , with more possibilities for the larger one that is engraved on a sprint subjected to cross a royal crown. Most likely would be part of a batch of guns for small and medium caliber ammunition and commissioned the burgeoning war industries or big and rich arsenal of war HM the new Re Savoy of Sicily: would have served to increase the military potential of his army and also to better fight the common enemy Spain.
the British economy of the years from 1690 on for a long period, had fallen into a deep depression. But this unfortunate situation would have facilitated the acceptance by the Government English of very delicate request for purchase of heavy weapons. The deal did not materialize anytime soon, either by the proverbial severity and precision you want to Anglo-Saxon and the difficulties of the long journey of transport for delivery to the recipient. This the extreme synthesis of the whole operation: the Government of Corona English examined the question of King Vittorio Amedeo II gave orders that would formalize a Royal Decree from Re George I, former Elector of Hanover (Saxe) , authorizing and allowed the sale of parts required and after the act had been enforced by the crucial approval of the Council of Corona . bureaucratic practices followed the strict test for the ability to fire each individual piece. As a final note it handles all steps to arrange the shipment and make it, in our case, those same transport ships moored together which resulted to Fleet Naval War British , in the sea of \u200b\u200b Torre Faro, quiet and Argentina when he wants to be, in that distant Sunday morning of August 10, 1718 .
The Garibaldians COULD NOT MAKE USE OF THOSE THREE GUNS unearthed
analyze with the criterion our hypothesis we found really interesting. Still with the hope that some militant Intellect Critical History, with academic language all branches and hyperbole, the stamps do not work for the whimsical imagination or worse yet no tantafèrina construct signed by a local idiot jackass . Or maybe, if it has been more gracious and willing to give us straight, it will be a competent patient reviewer of our work, however we have not done anything but read and summarize simply with scrupulous accuracy the Historical Maps and heard and reported spartanissimamente The Voice of the People of Torre Faro , gleaning from which we drew the stories of old residents who touched the eighty years of age and older, as the much beloved grandmother Ciliberto, it may seem curious, but at 94 years he was my best friend, my neighbor Lantern Road house, in the shadow of the great mass of Faro among the hydrangeas, geraniums and large peach trees I counted and re-count, a boy still, amazing true facts that seemed ancient fables. With the most grateful gratitude I owe to all of them if I could briefed descriptive recalling their views, as I learned over the years on those memorable events in that country have been handed down orally from father to son, shown here in their simplicity and common sense, scattered throughout the text have proven their value as historical information to be considered reliable to try to reconstruct the events.
hope we said before, in this case is one of those unmet needs that can be left without anything serious to happen so let's get right to exhibit without any hesitation but with the most conscientious objectivity because you have to say.
If so our three muzzle-loading guns were able to shoot the Garibaldini had no interest in putting out of use since it was not necessary to do so, so much for two factors:
The first : saw the small number of themselves, then they could take them as they have for all their artillery in full force, which in itself was already a considerable number, to confirm what has always supported the country to oral tradition that the guns trained on the Straits of Messina to Calabria were certainly more than forty pieces.
If we have left the three guns of high bill and they took that model colubrina antiquated, dating back to 1600, stretching his neck from gabions green battery in Torre Faro where you placed, as long as hunger, as described by Joseph Cesare Abba its Notarelle Memoirs of Garibaldi stories: "from neighborhood to Volturno and " Story of a Thousand " , leads us to believe that they were no longer able to shoot.
And always from these writings: the colubrina in question had been raised and experience on board when Garibaldi with its Mille have stayed at anchor with the vapors Piedmont and Lombardy in the sea of Talamone under the coast of Maremma Tuscany . Mounted on a bad carriage, an old and worn plaster to frighten, to wooden wheels that is not looking for continuous wear had become polygonal, with a handle shaped like a dolphin broken and the evidence of two shots cannon received. It was so shabby that he had done damage, up to capacity, men who transport weapons, committing them to trudge to draw from bulging Marsala (TP) up to 720 meters. heights at Piana degli Albanesi (PA) during the Sicilian campaign . (Ammenochè not lie abandoned and still hidden under the sand dunes and soil accumulated over time in our Fortino ).
The second : the Our Dress in red also would have another option after the their final departure from Sicily : leave them in Fortino under their territorial wire liberating troops who remained to garrison and occupy stable throughout the conquered territory of Torre Faro .
Then later, when Garibaldi the adventure of the Thousand ended, provided by the testimonies of the elders of the land, it was found that our three great guns were abandoned there since the first time for too many decades and endless how to put them, " were never more nor in the mind of God, nor in that of men " until they have been found, recently, as old and useless stuff left in chiappolo and recovered as historical artifacts to be saved.
Although still in its most flattering their exhumation, both relied on for a long time, was welcomed as a belated justice, since it is something that could have full right not to be removed from public knowledge.
At this point we can do is to jump headlong back in time before the domination Bourbon in Sicily . This is a period of 17 years which runs from August 10, 1718 , as we have said before that date could correspond to the arrival of our guns Peloro, to June 30 1735 , date of the establishment of the Bourbon dynasty of King Charles III, the solemn oath Cathedral of Palermo in . During that time, just in our area, clashes occurred between the soldiers of arms Austrians, English, English and the same Bourbon transient with a prevalence of one hour or other hours of 'much more, at the end of this war will end on March 9, 1735 with the surrender of the Austrian Presidio to Messina by the latter. If tampering has not occurred during the alternation of these facts warlike So our investigations lead us to describe the Soldiers of Francis II, last Re Bourbon the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies , to have worked, most likely, the intentional corruption pieces do not have to leave them efficient in the hands of the enemy Garibaldi. Here is explained what facts and presumable reasons:
The July 24, 1860 the Secretary of War Bourbon Joseph Salvatore Pianell , who was in Naples, seen that events were putting very badly for his army, which was already en route, estimated that there was little to mount a counterattack and not having to fight a war to the bitter end to preserve the position to the last man in order to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, gave the Marshal Thomas Clary, commander of Bourbon troops on the square military Messina, the task of dealing a Armistice with the enemy to allow the evacuation of its soldiers who were retreating, scattered and isolated those who remained. In fact, the July 27, 1860 Garibaldi with his partisans, already with the tacit non-aggression agreement, took possession of the city of Messina hired without any fighting, preceded by brigade Doctors with the group that attacked the " Hunters Lighthouse " were were the first troops to enter the city. The next day, July 28, 1860 the General Bourbon Clary overburdened with responsibility over the orders given by the Supreme Commander of Naples signed an armistice with the consideration January Garibaldi Giacomo Medici .
as it has signed the Convention was peremptory: the intimate Forces Bourbon was granted only as long as is necessary to retreat into the citadel of Messina in strong of Don Blasco, Lantern and San Salvatore .
All this happened when the Army winning of Garibaldi, after it was concluded that Concordat , had already settled in the city and unfolding with his first lines along the coast up to Messina, Torre Faro . Meanwhile naval units of support, by order of the same Garibaldi, moved from Milazzo to move in the waters of Peloro, even if they came preemptive action.
And then the small detachment of soldiers Bourbon, which belonged to Presidio of room in the old Tower of Fortress English , received an immediate order to evacuate their place of service and return to base for reasons of convenience, found himself besieged and oppressed on all sides by enemy forces and was forced to confine itself only to the carrying out of essential operations and spin off precipitously waves to rescue themselves, lightweight luggage and paraphernalia. In the terribly precarious situation it was impossible to take care of heavy artillery in the fort of Punta Thin: why they could not collect, transport and deploy appropriate points in the three guns belonging to the times set by the armistice that such narrow escape without urging , favorites especially the small number of pieces, presumably, these soldiers may have to put them out of Bourbon. Suppose further that by failing to them available to the steel nails and hammer to nail the artillery in a rite of sabotage more technical, in a most rudimentary alternative fitting and weld the iron balls into the mouth of the cannon, in this way made them and not jammed more fit for war.
As for the historical fact that in those moments was excited and decided this armed, detached and isolated, were taken in haste to the vessel, because the streets were prevented by vehicular Garibaldi's forces now recognized masters of the situation, and " in full sail" were taken to the Fortress of Citadel , where they already were for the soldiers of the other two principals of Gonzaga and Castellaccio .
The Citadel of Messina will be the last Bourbon fortress in Sicily to capitulate when the March 12 1861 be conquered Army Savoiardo controlled by January Enrico Cialdini .
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