General Girolamo Ramorino (8 April 1792 – 22 May 1849) was born in

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In the

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, he fought under

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. He later took part in the 1821

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uprising in Italy. In 1830–31, Ramorino aided the Polish insurgents in their November 1830 Uprising. From the mid-1830s, he helped other revolutionaries such as

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plan the 1848 revolutions. He will forever be known as an incompetent general due to the part he played when asked to arrange for an army to arrive from

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to aid a rising; it transpired that he had gambled away his money and that no help would be forthcoming.The risorgimento: Italy 1815-71 by Tim Chapman. P
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ese division. In 1849 he was accused of disobeying orders before the Battle of Novara, whose outcome sounded the death knell for the Italian revolutions. That same year, he was executed. Upon his own request he was allowed to command the shooting squad himself.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramorino, Girolamo 1792 births 1849 deaths Military personnel from Genoa Generals of former Italian states Generals of the November Uprising Italian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars

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