<![CDATA[In South-Italy the brigandage is a complex phenomenon, deeply popular and culturally reactionary: a “greatbrigandage†emerged in dangerous and structural forms after the fall of the last Bourbon king and the Italian unification under theSavoy dynasty, in 1861. From the “Mille†expedition and the conquest of redshirts leaded by Garibaldi, the Southern Army andthe Italian Army fought against the brigandage as a real insurgency movement supported by Bourbons’ loyalists and Catholicenvironments. In the campaign of banditism’s repression a particular case was the employment of volunteers, as the formerGaribaldi’s Hungarian Legion. From the General Staff Army’s Historical Archive the documents show both Command’s strategyand local tactics in the Hungarian practices. The concentration of the legionaries in Nocera (March 1861) and the growingnumber of effectives in few months (less than 1 thousand) gave the opportunity of their employment for more than 1 year in alarge area of Southern regions. The Hungarian legionaries’ mutiny, in July 1862, rised at the same time of the Garibaldi’sexpedition from South to Rome, blocked in August at the Aspromonte. After the disarm of the soldiers, the calling back to Torinomeant the risk of his dissolution. Only a complete reorganization, in 1863, allowed to employ back a new Legion until 1867.]]>
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