Giosuè Ritucci Lambertini di Santanastasia (1794, Naples–1869, Naples) was a military commander and minister of war in the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and a ...
.
He fought in the
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...
. He enlisted in the army in 1807, and was promoted to second lieutenant in 1811.
In 1848 he was injured in the leg during the
revolt of Palermo.
In 1860 he led the kingdom's army at the
Battle of Volturnus, and fought at the
Siege of Gaeta.
Sources
biography (Italian)
19th-century Neapolitan people
1794 births
1869 deaths
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people
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