From Friday 11 to Sunday, March 13, 2011 in Messina will be remembered, with a rich program of events, the 150th anniversary of the heroic defense of the Royal Citadel of Messina by duosiciliani loyal soldiers, commanded by General Ferguson, Piedmont besieged by troops of General Cialdini.
was March 13, 1861, four days after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in Turin, when the Citadel the white flag was lowered duosiciliana. The fortress of Messina represented, along with those of Gaeta and Civitella del Tronto, the extreme resistance of the millennial Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, where our soldiers knowing the futility every effort sought to defend the homeland expressing their loyalty to King Francis II of Bourbon.
A glorious page of our past deliberately erased from official history as the Royal Citadel itself, witness the inexorable facts, which still pours into disrepair.
For over a century has been repeating the same banal chorus peppered with empty and vague words like "freedom" and "foreign tyranny," "heroism" and "military capabilities" against inadequacy and felony, in a plate full of rhetoric Risorgimento according to fixed schemes which the good and the good were all on one side and the bad and the ugly other. Things went differently, easy victories on the one hand, and true heroism aware of the other.
roles reversed, who would reasonably should have won the battle officially and essentially lost, some could not even hope for victory practically won. The phantom as a strategy reported in Garibaldi had only basis and only in the extortion and betrayal of those who commanded the most aggressive Bourbon troops. Not a single fight, to be Calatafimi Milazzo saw prevail, if not in the disproportionate number of victims, partisans. If the generals betrayed just did not take place between troops loyal to King Francis II as evidenced by the numerous instances of insubordination departments of their commanders felons and sold to the enemy. Ben
are celebrating the 150th anniversary of national, but each is recognized equal dignity and not endure the oppression, with the distortion of historical reality for too long practiced. Time discovers truth, and denied the truth to the people in Sicily and southern Italy in this case has the right to citizenship in a new Italy cultured and aware of their common origins and ancient culture. It has always been easier and better to take the side of winners, to be increasingly difficult and dangerous to continue to defend the reasons for the losers.
This ceremony takes place away from 1998 and is organized by the Friends of the Museum, by the "General Ferguson," the Sicilian Delegation of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, by the delegations of the Cultural Neoborbonico Messina and Committees of the Two Sicilies, from the Catholic Alliance, the Foundation Thule Culture in Palermo, the network ZDA - Downtown Art at high risk of contamination - Messina and by the Two Sicilies "Nicola Zitarosa" di Gioiosa Jonica.
the press officer of the event
Dr. Marco Grassi
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