Background
At the outbreak of the third Italian war of Independence (June 23, 1866), Giuseppe Garibaldi received the order to take up positions with his volunteer force the "Corpo Volontari Italiani" along the frontline between Lombardy and the south most part of the County of Tyrol which today corresponds to the Italian province of Trentino.
Initially Garibaldi could only muster 4 battalions, but in the end managed to obtain some 38,000 men, which were to face the roughly 15,000 Austrian regulars under general baron Franz von Kuhn. The Austrians were supported by their fleet on Lake Garda.
Read more about this topic: Invasion Of Trentino (1866)
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