Ettore Pedotti

Ettore Pedotti (Laveno, March 8, 1842 – Rome, January 6, 1919) was an Italian general and politician. He served as a Senator of the Kingdom and as Minister of War of the Kingdom of Italy in the successive Giolitti II, Tittoni, and Fortis I governments.

Early military career Pedotti was born in Laveno di Como in 1842 and in March 1859, while still a teenager, he left school to answer Giuseppe Garibaldi's call for national struggle against Austrian domination, eager to enlist as a volunteer in the first regiment of the corps of Cacciatori delle Alpi, commanded by Enrico Cosenz. Here he was quickly promoted to corporal and a few days later to sergeant. In this rank, on June 16, he distinguished himself in resisting superior enemy forces at the battle of Treponti that he was decorated with the medal of the military valour. he did not take long to acquire uncontested authority in the Assembly, demonstrated by the role that he took part in numerous discussions of general interest, particularly military ones, and the important commissions of which he was appointed member by the Senate.

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