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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 ]
Brigandage in Southern Italy (Italian: brigantaggio) had existed in some form since ancient times. However, its origins as outlaws targeting random travellers would evolve vastly later on to become a form of a political resistance movement , especially from the 19th century onward.
On 6 April 1862, the gang clashed near Muro Lucano with regular troops, killing nine soldiers. Caruso continued his activity as a robber and, on 6 September of the same year with his chief Crocco and another 200 bandits, attacked a farm, robbing ten sacks of fodder for the horses, twenty sacks of grain and ten cloths worth twenty ducats.
In this period thousands of poor people took the way of brigandage. The most well known brigand was Carmine Crocco, a former soldier in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi who formed an army of two thousand men. Crocco was renowned for his guerrilla tactics, which were enhanced by the same royal soldiers who chased him. His warfare included ...
Due to a sharp increase of brigandage on Sardinia, King Charles Albert ordered on 3 March 1832 to reform the Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Sardegna". The reformed regiment incorporated the personnel of the Royal Carabinieri Corps of Sardinia and then consisted of two divisions, which fielded four squadrons, which were further divided into 13 ...
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