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Guiseppi Garibaldi treasured the memory of a visit to Tyneside.

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Keep Room for Me in Your Heart

Guiseppi Garibaldi treasured the memory of a visit to Tyneside.

In 1854, Guiseppi Garibaldi found himself an outcast across Europe for his campaign to unite Italy’s small states (some under foreign control) in a single country. He found friends in the US and on his return, his ship called into Newcastle-upon-Tyne for coal. Joseph Cowen Jr came aboard to present him with a ceremonial sword inscribed ‘To General Garibaldi, by the people of Tyneside, friends of European freedom’.

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Join this group of ideas together to make a single sentence, in as many ways as you can.

England might need liberating one day. Garibaldi promised Italy’s help. [If. Oppress. Word.]

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