Giosuè Ritucci Explained

Giosuè Ritucci
Birth Date:1794
Birth Place:Naples
Death Date:1869
Death Place:Naples
Office:Minister of War, Kingdom of Two Sicilies
Term:Early 1860 – May, 1860
Office2:Commander of the Military of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in Calabria
Term2:1850s – Early 1860
Successor:Giuseppe Salvatore Pianell
Successor2:Vacant
Position abolished
Predecessor:Vacant
Predecessor2:Unknown

Giosuè Ritucci Lambertini di Santanastasia (1794, Naples - 1869, Naples) was a military commander and minister of war in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

He fought in the Napoleonic Wars. 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 and fought at the Siege of Gaeta.

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