The Fasci Siciliani , short for Fasci Siciliani dei Lavoratori ( Sicilian Workers Leagues ) , were a popular movement Social_event of democratic and socialist inspiration , which arose Process_start in Sicily in the years between 1889 and 1894 .

Consisting Cause_to_be_included of a jumble Cause_to_amalgamate of traditionalist sentiment , religiosity , and socialist consciousness , the movement Social_event reached Arriving its apex in the summer of 1893 , when new conditions were presented Presence to the landowners and mine owners of Sicily concerning the renewal Recovering of sharecropping and rental contracts Sign_agreement .

The expedition Self_motion was a success and concluded Process_end with a plebiscite Ratification that brought Bringing Naples and Sicily into the Kingdom of Sardinia , the last territorial conquest Conquering before the creation Creating of the Kingdom of Italy on 17 March 1861 .

The various groups participated Participation in the expedition Self_motion for a variety of reasons : for Garibaldi , it was to achieve Achieve a united Cause_to_amalgamate Italy ; to the Sicilian bourgeoisie , an independent Sicily as part of the kingdom of Italy , and for common people , land distribution Dispersal and the end Process_end of oppression .

The Action of 27 June 1798 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter between British and French frigates in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea .

Lauria had taken Action his fleet to Augusta , eastern Sicily , after a report Reporting of an Angevin galley fleet landing Motion invasion troops there .

However , the invasion was a decoy and the Angevin galleys had sailed Motion around the south of Sicily and linked Connect up with their allies , forming Coming_to_be a fleet about twice the size of Lauria 's .

Their plan Arranging was to land Motion troops in the south-west of Sicily .

During the Second World War , Operation Retribution was the air and naval blockade designed Creating to prevent Preventing_or_letting the seaborne evacuation of Axis forces from Tunisia to Sicily .

The brigade was transferred Military_operation out of the front in mid-April 1943 and left Departing to rejoin Becoming_a_member the rest of the 1st Airborne Division to train Education_teaching for Operation Military_operation Husky , the Allied invasion Attack of Sicily .

The Siege of Akragas took place Process_start in 406 BC in Sicily ; the Carthaginian enterprise ultimately lasted a total of eight months .

The Carthaginian army under Hannibal Mago besieged Besieging the Dorian Greek city of Akragas in retaliation Revenge for the Greek raids on Punic colonies in Sicily .

Arab raids Attack reached Arriving a peak in the 9th and early 10th centuries , after the conquests of Crete , Malta and Sicily , with their fleets reaching Arriving the coasts of France and Dalmatia and even the suburbs of Constantinople .

It had been prompted Causation by the actions of the Zirid ruler Tamim ibn Muizz ( reigned Control 1062–1108 ) as a pirate in waters off the Italian Peninsula , along with his involvement in Sicily fighting Hostile_encounter the Norman invasion .

Altogether five Horsas and three Halifaxes were lost Earnings_and_losses , but twenty-seven Horsas arrived in Arriving Tunisia in time to participate Participation in the invasion Attack of Sicily .

Byzantine attempts to stem Preventing_or_letting the slow but successful Arab conquest Conquering of Sicily ended Process_end in a dismal failure .

The Battle of Sanluri was fought Hostile_encounter on 30 June 1409 between the armies of the Sardinian Judicate of Arborea and the Catalan-Sicilian army led by the King Martin I of Sicily .

Operation Ladbroke was a glider landing by British airborne troops during the Second World War near Syracuse , Sicily , that began on 9 July 1943 as part of Operation Husky , the Allied invasion of Sicily .

Operation Ladbroke was a glider landing by British airborne troops during the Second World War near Syracuse , Sicily , that began on 9 July 1943 as part of Operation Husky , the Allied invasion of Sicily .

The objective was to establish Building a large invasion force on the ground near the town of Syracuse , secure the Ponte Grande Bridge and ultimately take control of the city itself with its strategically vital docks , as a prelude to the full-scale invasion of Sicily .

En route to Sicily , sixty-five gliders released Publishing too early by the American and British towing aircraft crashed Catastrophe into the sea , drowning approximately 252 men .

Other troops from the brigade , who had landed elsewhere in Sicily , aided Assistance further by destroying communications links and capturing gun batteries .

Austerlitz had driven Motion neither Russia nor Britain , whose armies protected Defending Sicily from a French invasion Attack , to settle .

The Allied invasion Attack of Sicily , codenamed Operation Military_operation Husky , was a major campaign Military_operation of World War Hostile_encounter II , in which the Allies took Conquering the island of Sicily from the Axis powers ( the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany ) .

The Allied invasion Attack of Sicily , codenamed Operation Military_operation Husky , was a major campaign Military_operation of World War Hostile_encounter II , in which the Allies took Conquering the island of Sicily from the Axis powers ( the Kingdom of Italy and Nazi Germany ) .

In 415 BC , Athens dispatched Sending a massive expeditionary force to attack Syracuse , Sicily ; the attack failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act disastrously , with the destruction of the entire force in 413 BC .

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily .

Correspondence between two British generals which suggested Statement that the Allies planned Arranging to invade Greece and Sardinia , with Sicily as merely the target of a feint , was also placed Placing on the body .

Reinforcements were shifted Change to Greece and Sardinia before and during the invasion Attack of Sicily ; Sicily received Receiving none .

Reinforcements were shifted Change to Greece and Sardinia before and during the invasion Attack of Sicily ; Sicily received Receiving none .

The effect of Operation Mincemeat is unknown , although Sicily was liberated more quickly than anticipated and losses Earnings_and_losses were lower than predicted .

Operation Fustian was an airborne forces operation undertaken during the Allied invasion Attack of Sicily in July 1943 in the Second World War .

Because the bridge was the only crossing on the river and would give Giving the British Eighth Army access to the Catania plain , its capture Conquering was expected to speed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the advance Motion and lead to Causation the defeat Conquering of the Axis forces in Sicily .

By this time the 1st Parachute Brigade had been withdrawn Escaping to Malta and took no further part in the conquest of Sicily .

The Ottoman forces Military_operation were sailing Motion westward from their naval station in `` Lepanto '' ( the Venetian name of ancient `` Naupactus '' , Ottoman `` '' ) when they met Come_together the fleet Military_operation of the Holy League which was sailing Motion east from Messina , Sicily .

The battle Hostile_encounter refers to the `` Il Canto degli Italiani '' by Goffredo Mameli and Michele Novaro , which reads Statement : « [ ... ] From the Alps to Sicily , Legnano is everywhere [ ... ] » in memory of the victory Earnings_and_losses of Italian populations over foreign ones .

The Siege of Syracuse in 827–828 marks the first attempt by the Aghlabids to conquer Conquering the city of Syracuse in Sicily , then a Byzantine province .

The Aghlabid army had only months before landed on Sicily , ostensibly in support Supporting of the rebel Byzantine general Euphemius .

From there they pursued Aiming the slow conquest of Sicily , which led to Causation the fall Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale of Syracuse after another long siege in 877–878 , and culminated Process_end in the fall of Taormina in 902 .