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Cavour. CHAPTER XX, KING OF ITALY. Meantime the Papal Government had been collecting mercenaries from all parts of the world, and the Pope invited General Lamoriciere to take the command of his heterogeneous army. This general had been one of the French commanders at the siege of Rome in 1848, when he had uttered the never-to-be-forgiven, never-to-be- forgotten words: Les Italiens ne se battciit pas. That was before he had measured swords with the Italians in Rome, after which he had reason to ...change his opinion, though it is not recorded that he retracted it. No 2l8 LIFE OF VICTOR EMMANUEL IT. Injury that his arms had inflicted on the suffering city was remembered half so bitterly as this insult. He now set out on his second crusade, declaring that he was ready to unsheathe his sword against this modern Islamisvi — an expression which excited great indigna- tion in Piedmont. ' This brave General Lamoriciere, ' said Victor Emmanuel, with a scornful laugh, ' baptises us for Turks, and transforms the Sabaud cross into a crescent.
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