Brigantaggio | |||||||
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Part of the Italian unification | |||||||
An episode of brigandage in 1864 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Kingdom of Italy |
Southern Italian brigands Supported by: Bourbon Legitimists in Southern Italy Partisans from Bourbon Spain | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Alfonso La Marmora Enrico Cialdini |
Carmine Crocco (POW) Vincenzo Mastronardi Ninco Nanco José Borjes Luigi Alonzi Michele La Rotonda [1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
(1861–1864) [2][3] 603 killed Including 21 officers 253 wounded 24 captured or missing |
(1861–1864) [2][3] 2,413 killed 2,768 captured 1,038 executed |
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. During the time of the Napoleonic conquest of the Kingdom of Naples, the first signs of political resistance brigandage came to public light, as the Bourbon loyalists of the country refused to accept the new Bonapartist rulers and actively fought against them until the Bourbon monarchy had been reinstated.[4] Some claim that the word brigandage is a euphemism for what was in fact a civil war.[5]
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