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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.
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.
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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.
The second has grabbed the bridle of the other soldier's horse and is about to be struck by the soldier's saber. A third brigand flees while holding in his hands two bags stolen from travelers, abandoning a third in the road. A fourth brigand fires a rifle at the soldiers, covering his companion's flight.
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