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 .

Opposition to this movement was principally represented by the somewhat aristocratic British colonial administration and their extended Expansion community , in addition to organized Arranging fraternal associations , such as the Scotch-Irish Orange Order and the Anglo-Montreal bourgeoisie of the era .

Centered on rapidly growing fruit plantations , it was a conflict between a ‘ rich ad enterprising Chinese bourgeoisie which has taken possession of the land , and the alienated , indebted , and already semi-independent village communities. ” According to Kiernan , it was clear that “ corruption , the misuse of military and other authority , and increasing impoverishment , in the Samlaut , Pailin and Andoeuk Hep districts , for example , created a vast reservoir of peasant unrest that lacked only a reasonably sophisticated leadership .