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Why did garibaldi take naples and the island of sicily and declare himself dictator or southern italy

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Garibaldi wanted to unite Italy to make it more powerful. Many countries were united by then (maybe except for Germany, but the unification of Germany was just 10 years after the unification of Italy) and united countries were mostly more powerful.
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He wanted to rid Italy of the Bourbon monarch

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