During the war of Italian unification,"Red Shirts" were

A) the English troops wearing their red summer clothes.
B) volunteer communist troops.
C) the bloody spectacles after each battle with thousands of troops dead or injured.
D) the volunteer troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
E) the regular troops of the Piedmont-Sardinian army.

Red Shirts

Volunteers who followed the Italian patriot and general Giuseppe Garibaldi during his campaigns for the unification of Italy in the 19th century.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

An Italian general, patriot, and nationalist who played a key role in the unification of Italy, known for his leadership in the campaign and battles that consolidated different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single nation.

Piedmont-Sardinian Army

The military forces of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, pivotal in the unification of Italy in the 19th century.