Guglielmo Pepe

Guglielmo Pepe , born in Calabria in 1783 and died in Turin in 1855, is a soldier Italy general N, of Empire and one of the actors of the Risorgimento.

He is a young partisan of the République parthénopéenne of 1799, but he must exile himself in France with the return of kings Bourbons. He is built-in the Italian Légion formed with Dijon, and fights at the sides of the French during the Italian countryside of Bonaparte in 1800. Returned with Naples, he conspires and is condemned to the perpetual prison. Released in 1805, it serves the new kings Joseph Bonaparte then Joachim Murat. It fights in Spain. In 1815, Murat appoints it general lieutenant. It preserves its station at the return of the Bourbons.

In 1820, it is one of the leaders of the rising of Naples against the king Ferdinand {{Ier}}, but it is beaten at the time of the Austrian intervention with Rieti in March 1821. He is condemned to died by Contumace and must take refuge in London, then in Brussels and in finally in Paris in 1830. In 1848, it orders the troops sent in Lombardy by the king of Naples to support Charles-Albert of Sardinia which has just declared the war with the Austrians. When the Neapolitan army is recalled by its king, Pepe helps Manin to defend Venice against the Austrians. With the defeat it takes refuge in Paris.

After the re-establishment of the Empire (December 1852) Pepe is established in the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, with Nice then with Turin.

It published several works on the events in which it took part. -----

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