General Girolamo Ramorino (8 April 1792 – 22 May 1849) was born in

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, in northern

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In the

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, he fought under

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. He later took part in the 1821

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uprising in Italy. In 1830–31, Ramorino aided the Polish insurgents in their November 1830 Uprising. From the mid-1830s, he helped other revolutionaries such as

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plan the 1848 revolutions. He will forever be known as an incompetent general due to the part he played when asked to arrange for an army to arrive from

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to aid a rising; it transpired that he had gambled away his money and that no help would be forthcoming.The risorgimento: Italy 1815-71 by Tim Chapman. P
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ese division. In 1849 he was accused of disobeying orders before the

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, whose outcome sounded the death knell for the Italian revolutions. That same year, he was executed. Upon his own request he was allowed to command the shooting squad himself.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramorino, Girolamo 1792 births 1849 deaths Military personnel from Genoa Italian generals Generals of the November Uprising Italian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars

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