Giosuè Ritucci Lambertini di Santanastasia (1794, Naples–1869, Naples) was a military commander and minister of war in the

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies () was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, Bourbons. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by popula ...

. He fought in the

Napoleonic Wars {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Napoleonic Wars , partof = the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , image = Napoleonic Wars (revision).jpg , caption = Left to right, top to bottom:Battl ...

. He enlisted in the army in 1807, and was promoted to second lieutenant in 1811. In 1848 he was injured in the leg during the revolt of Palermo. In 1860 he led the kingdom's army at the

Battle of the Volturno The Battle of the Volturno refers to a series of military clashes between Giuseppe Garibaldi's volunteers and the troops of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies occurring around the River Volturno, between the cities of Capua and Caserta in northern C ...

and fought at the Siege of Gaeta.

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19th-century Neapolitan people 1794 births 1869 deaths Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people {{italy-politician-stub