Napoleon said: ‘Italy is like a boot. You have to enter it from the top. “
Spartacus made a bargain with Cilician pirates to transport him and some 2,000 of his men to Sicily, where he intended to incite a slave revolt and gather reinforcements. However, he was betrayed by the pirates, who took payment and then abandoned the rebels.
But Garibaldi re-conquered it from the bottom - Starting in Sicily.