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Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder. [1] It is practiced by a brigand , a person who is typically part of a gang and lives by pillage and robbery. [ 2 ]
During the search for Crocco, Caruso, a crack shot, fired a carbine at a distance of 200 meters at a brigand who resembled his ex-commander, hitting him in the head, killing him instantly. Approaching the body, he discovered that it was one of Crocco's men dressed in his clothes--a trick used to avoid being caught by the authorities.
An indication of the number of deaths during the conflict, including killings and other damages caused by brigandage, can be found in "Result of Operations", signed by colonel Bariola of the 6th Military Department in Naples, for the first nine months of 1863: [14] 421 brigands had been killed in combat, 322 were shot by firing squad, 504 ...
Carmine Crocco (5 June 1830 – 18 June 1905), known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli, [1] was an Italian brigand.Initially a soldier for the Bourbons, he later fought in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Giuseppe Nicola Summa, known as Ninco Nanco (April 12, 1833 – March 13, 1864), was an Italian brigand.One of the most important brigands after the Italian unification, he was a lieutenant of Carmine Crocco, band chief of the Vulture area, in Basilicata.
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The reformed corps, which continued to use the uniforms of the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Sardegna", fielded 32 officers, 480 non-commissioned officers and soldiers on horse, 20 recruits on horse, 308 non-commissioned officers and soldiers on foot, 15 recruits on foot, and 480 horses.
As a result, many of these soldiers took to brigandage and revolt, and they plundered much of Anatolia between 1596 and 1610. [4] Rivalries between the janissaries and the sekban ultimately resulted in a rebellion. After the janissaries had been defeated on the Rumelian front, they marched on Istanbul in 1687 to depose Mehmed IV. [1]