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The villages of Pontelandolfo and Casalduni in the Province of Benevento became the site of a massacre of thirteen brigands by Italian Bersaglieri, as a reprisal after the massacre of forty-five soldiers of the Italian army by local brigands.
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I briganti italiani (internationally released as The Italian Brigands and Seduction of the South) is a 1962 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Mario Camerini. It was shot in Cerreto Sannita.
Jul 28, 2022 · In the Middle Ages, an Italian brigante was a type of foot soldier, an adventurous member of a mercenary unit. The term’s negative characteristics apparently came through the French, who used it during the Napoleonic period to disparage Italian revolts to their occupation.
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The English word brigant (also brigaunt) was introduced as early as 1400, via Old French brigand from Italian brigante "trooper, skirmisher, foot soldier". The Italian word is from a verb brigare "to brawl, fight" (whence also brigade). For a bandito or bando a man declared outlaw by proclamation, see the article Bandit.
Towards the end of wars, irreconcilables may refuse to accept the loss of their cause, and may continue hostilities using irregular tactics. Upon capture by the victorious side, whether the capturing power has to recognize them as soldiers (who must be treated as prisoners of war) or as brigands (who can be tried under civilian law as common crimin...
In certain conditions the brigand has not been a mere malefactor. Brigandage may be, and not infrequently has been, the last resort of a people subject to invasion. The Calabrians who fought for Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, and the Spanish irregular levies, which maintained the national resistance against the French from 1808 to 1814, were call...
The conditions which favor the development of brigandage may be summed up as bad administration[a] and to a lesser degree, terrain that permits easy escape from the incumbents.[b] The Scottish Marches supplied a theatre for the gentlemen reivers. After the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651), policing the Scottish moss-troopers tied up many Engl...
The forests of England gave cover to the outlaws, who were flatteringly portrayed in the ballads of Robin Hood. The dense Maquis shrubland and hills of Corsica gave the Corsican brigand many advantages, just as the bush of Australia concealed the bushranger. The Apennines, the mountains of Calabria, the Sierras of Spain, were the homes of the Itali...
England
England was ruled by William III, when "a fraternity of plunderers, thirty in number according to the lowest estimate, squatted near Waltham Cross under the shades of Epping Forest, and built themselves huts, from which they sallied forth with sword and pistol to bid passengers stand". The Gubbings (so called in contempt from the trimmings and refuse of fish) infested Devonshire for a generation from their headquarters near Brent Tor, on the edge of Dartmoor.
France
In France there were the Écorcheurs, or Skinners, in the 15th century, and the Chauffeurs around the time of the revolution. The first were large bands of discharged mercenarysoldiers who pillaged the country. The second were ruffians who forced their victims to pay ransom by holding their feet in fires. In the years preceding the French Revolution, the royal government was defied by the troops of smugglers and brigands known as faux saulniers, unauthorized salt-sellers, and gangs of poachers...
Greece and the Balkans
In 1870 an English party, consisting of Lord and Lady Muncaster, Mr Vyner, Mr Lloyd, Mr Herbert, and Count de Boyl, was captured at Oropos, near Marathon, and a ransom of £25,000 was demanded. Lord and Lady Muncaster were set at liberty to seek for the ransom, but the Greek government sent troops in pursuit of the brigands, and the other prisoners were then murdered. In the Balkan peninsula, under Turkish rule, brigandage continued to exist in connection with Christian revolt against the Turks.
Axinn, Sidney (2008). A Moral Military. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-958-3.Elsea, Jennifer (13 January 2005) [11 April 2002]. Treatment of "Battlefield Detainees" in the War on Terrorism (PDF). American Law Division CRS Report for Congress, Order Code RL31367.Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Möens, William John Charles" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 627–628.In the mountains of Italy, a guerrilla band fights the tyrannical land barons. Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, Katy Jurado, Rosanna Schiaffino, Micheline Presle, Bernard Blier, Akim Tamiroff ...
A guerilla band leader surrenders after battle and a disastrous defeat but is killed by an unknown enemy.
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Apr 24, 2024 · ‘Brigands: The Quest for Gold,’ known as ‘Briganti’ in Italian, takes place in the scenic and politically fraught society of Southern Italy— particularly the Basilicata region a couple of years after its annexation to the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.
