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141: 171: 362:, Bixio besieged and successfully secured the village. Unfortunately, most of those who had caused the revolt had already run away. Bixio organised a military court which found 150 locals guilty, and sentenced 5 of them to death. This episode reflected Bixio's bias about Sicily, bringing him to write to his wife: "In these regions it is not enough to kill the enemy, it is necessary to torment them, to burn them alive in a slow flame... they are regions that need to be destroyed or at least depopulated, their people sent to Africa to become civilized." 153: 183: 423:), where he was slated to take command of a commercial expedition. The exact location of his grave remained unclear. Locals reported that he had been buried on the beach and his grave could not be seen at high tide. In 1876, a small military expedition of the Dutch East Indian forces set out to pinpoint the precise spot, but met with disaster as several soldiers were brutally slain in the attempt. 537: 36: 357:
province, a revolt took place, claimed by Garibaldi to have been led by local criminals and bandits, which caused the massacre of 16 people including peasants, officers, nobles (including two children) and a priest; during the revolt, the town theater and municipal archives were set on fire. On 4
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Meanwhile, the Sicilian peasants had hoped for – and did not get from Garibaldi – reforms from the restrictive conditions imposed by noble landowners. This hope had been reinforced by Garibaldi's decree of 2 June 1860 that land would be redistributed. At the little village of
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In queste regioni non basta uccidere il nemico, bisogna straziarlo, bruciarlo vivo a fuoco lento... son regioni che bisognerebbe distruggere o almeno spopolare e mandare i caffoni in Africa a farsi civili.
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August 1860, Garibaldi decided to send Bixio to suppress the revolt and punishing the responsible. Once he arrived with two battalions of
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He was born Gerolamo Bixio in Genoa. While still a boy, Bixio was compelled by his parents to embrace a career in the navy of the
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in February 1870, he was in the following September given command of a division during the movement against
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and Garibaldi. In 1866, at the head of the seventh division, he covered the Italian retreat from the
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He fought through the campaign of 1848, became captain under
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By August 21, Bixio and the Garibaldines entered in
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Senator of the Kingdom of Italy
Genoa
Banda Aceh
Kingdom of Sardinia
Kingdom of Italy
Royal Sardinian Army
Royal Italian Army
General
Red Shirts
Italian Wars of Independence
[dʒeˈrɔːlamoˈniːnoˈbiksjo]
[ˈbiːʒu]
Italian unification
Kingdom of Sardinia
Giovine Italia
Charles Albert
Ticino
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Rome
French
battalion
Hunters of the Alps
Battle of Varese
Military Cross of Savoy
Expedition of the Thousand
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Battle of Calatafimi
Bronte, Sicily

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