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Carmine Crocco

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Also known as Carmine Donatelli Crocco, Donatello, Karmin Krokko

Italian brigand (1830–1905)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1971-03-18

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Key facts

Born
( 1830-06-05 ) 5 June 1830, Rionero in Vulture , Basilicata , Two Sicilies
Died
18 June 1905 (1905-06-18) (aged 75), Portoferraio , Tuscany , Italy
Other name
Donatello
Organization
Brigandage in the Two Sicilies

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Encyclopedic overview

Carmine Crocco (5 June 1830 – 18 June 1905), known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli, was an Italian brigand. Initially a soldier for the Bourbons, he later fought in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Soon after Italian unification he formed an army of two thousand men, leading the most cohesive and feared band in Southern Italy and becoming the most formidable leader on the Bourbon side. He was renowned for his guerrilla tactics, such as cutting water supplies, destroying flour mills, cutting telegraph wires and ambushing stragglers.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carmine Crocco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.