200th ANNIVERSARY OF GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI BIRTH.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nizza (now Nice) on July 4, 1807, was the most famous Italian personality of the 19th century. Possibly, only the composer Verdi was as well-known as he was at the time.
For many Italians, Garibaldi represented the long-awaited condottiero, the bold adventurer who rose from the ranks to unify Italy. For the rest of the world, who admired him, he was the embodiment of the hero, the legendary brave man whose fearlessness and audacity astonished everyone.
Garibaldi spent ten years at sea, working aboard merchant ships. Like other young men of his generation, he was attracted to the Young Italy Movement, which fought to impose a republican-democratic regime on the peninsula. Persecuted by the authorities, Garibaldi left Italy, took refuge in Marseille and, in 1835, came to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil being his first exile. It was on this occasion that he met Bento Gonçalves, from Rio Grande do Sul, who was imprisoned at the Santa Cruz Fortress at the time for having led the 20 September uprising against the Regency in Rio Grande do Sul.
In what was then the Province of Rio Grande do Sul, he joined the Farroupilha Revolution and became the protagonist of the spectacular nautical episode that occurred: in a short time, Garibaldi set up a shipyard on the banks of the Camaquã River to build sailboats that formed the “farroupilha navy”. Without access to the sea, due to the blockade by the Imperial Squadron, he performed a remarkable feat. Setting off from the banks of Lagoa dos Patos, he had 200 pairs of oxen transport his two boats, “Seival” and “Farroupilha” until they reached the sea, at the mouth of the Tramandaí River. (The stamp shows horses pulling the boat but it were oxen.)

From there, he took the city of Laguna, Santa Catarina, by surprise, where the Juliana Republic was proclaimed on July 29, 1839, a feat that consecrated him, together with General Davi Canabarro.
Giuseppe Garibaldi commanded the launches SEIVAL, RIO PARDO, CACAPAVA and ITAPARICA.
The fledgling Republic, however, had neither the means nor the resources. Garibaldi, now accompanied by Anita, a young woman from Laguna who became his wife and comrade in arms, returned to Rio Grande do Sul. Feeling the flame of revolution fading, the couple decided to settle in Montevideo, taking with them little Menotti, their son born in Mostardas, on the coast of Rio Grande do Sul.
Three more children were born in Uruguay, and the girl, Rosita, died at the age of two. In 1842, Garibaldi served as captain of the Uruguayan fleet in a civil war between the two main caudillos: Oribe (of the Blancos) and Rivera (of the Colorados). Sided with Rivera, in 1843 he organized the Italian Legion: the famous “red shirts”, who would later fight for Italian unification.
Back home in 1848, she fought Austrian troops in Lombardy, initiating the unsuccessful struggle for Italian unification. Forced to escape, she took refuge in Switzerland and France and, at the end of the same year, commanded the defense of Rome against the French intervention in favor of the Papacy. In the ensuing escape, Anita, aged just 28, died in Mandriolle on August 4, 1849.
After another exile, Garibaldi returned to Italy in 1854 to reorganize the “red shirts” and participate in the fight for national unification. Having achieved victory, he retired to the island of Caprera, where he died, close to his 76th birthday, on June 2, 1882.
In this joint issue with Uruguay, Correios do Brasil highlights the revolutionary ideal and bravery of Giuseppe Garibaldi, known worldwide as the “Hero of the Two Worlds”.
Voltaire Schilling
Director of the Rio Grande do Sul Memorial
https://blog.correios.com.br/filatelia/?page_id=14581

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retomada_de_Laguna

Watercraft on stamps, supplement 1 to ATA handbook 156. gives the name for the ship as RIO PARDO

The vessel on the stamp is the RIO PARDO on which I found.

Schooner Rio Pardo
(ex-Gunboat No. 6)
 
 
D a t a s
 
Keel laying: ?
Launch: ?
Incorporation: March 21, 1838
Decommissioning: ?
 
 
C a r a c t e r í s t i c a s
 
Displacement: ?
Dimensions: 24.07 m long, 5.48 m wide, 1.21 m deep and ? m of draft.
Propulsion: sail, rigged on a schooner.
Speed: ?
Range: ?
Armament: 2 12 gauge guns.
Crew: ?
 
H i s t ó r i c o
 
The Schooner Rio Pardo , ex- Gunboat No. 6 , ex- São Padro , was the first ship to bear this name in honor of this river in Rio Grande do Sul, in the Brazilian Navy. Former Yacht São Pedro , purchased from Isidoro Filipe Duarte, on March 21, 1838 for 6:800$000.
 
1839
 
On November 15, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Francisco Pereira Pinto, he took part in the naval battle of Laguna.
 
1840
 
In August, he was stationed in Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Francisco Paraibuna.
 
 
R e l a ç ã o    d e    C o m a n d a n t e s
 
Commander
Period
1st Lt. Francisco Pereira Pinto
__/__/1839 a __/__/18__
1st Lt. Francisco Paraibuna
__/__/1840 a __/__/18_

https://www.naval.com.br/ngb/R/R046/R046.htm
Uruguay 2007 37p sg 3061, scott2196.
Brazil 2007 R$ 1,49 sg 3499, scott3022 and sg 3500, Scott3021.