Following the War of Italian Unification, Italian independence from the rule of Hapsburg emperors was partly complete - but only partly. The Papal States, Naples and Sicily remained under the old regime. But on 11 May 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi landed at Marsala in Sicily with the famous ‘Thousand’ (actually 1,049 men and 1 woman) and within two months had conquered the island against vastly superior numbers and proceeded to invade the Italian mainland.
It seems an eminently suitable campaign for Sharp Practice and I get a chance to finally use some special terrain that’s been lingering in the lower basement for 15+ years. But more of that later, here’s the first painting:
The man himself:
The first trial unit of Redshirts:
And a water carrier/medic for a support unit. Technically its the Mary Seacole figure that was a Partizan giveaway a year back, but the costume looks similar to some pictures I’d seen of Sicillian women from the period:
The building in the background is a Grand Manner Peninsula model, but fairly indistinguishable from Southern Italian buildings and I’ll be using these to represent Sicily.
