I had the whole field my own, and discoursedbrigandage without the fear of a contradiction.
They say that your clever report on brigandage is to get you a good berth, and I don't think you 'll spoil your advancement by an indiscreet disclosure.
You are aware that a great question is now disputed between the Bourbonists of Naples and the party of New Italy,--whether brigandage means highway robbery, or is the outburst of national enthusiasm in favor of the old dynasty.
The brigandage and violence of an Armagnac, Jean Raoulet, all along the Seine, brought home to the people of Rouen with an even more startling clearness the necessity for trying what the other side could do for them.
And, if those who performed these acts of brigandage were highly detestable, in what respect are their descendants responsible therefor?
Should we also be held responsible for the acts of brigandage which our histories teach us to admire as glorious achievements?
The internal affairs of the island were also in a most confused condition; assassinations even in the streets of Havana were frequent, and brigandage was carried on in the near environs of the city.
Brigandage is on the increase, as poverty and want of legitimate employment prevail.
The question is, Whether the politicalbrigandage in South Italy had any real affinity with the wars of the Klephts, or even of the Carlists?
The political brigandage which followed the downfall of the King of the Two Sicilies began after the battle of the Volturno and extended over five years.
About a thousand accepted; the rest dispersed, forming the first nucleus of the semi-political and wholly dastardly brigandage which was later to become the scourge of Southern Italy.
Monasteries and convents and religious schools were transformed into modern teaching institutions, brigandage was put down, and efficient and honest government was established.
You are frequently told in Spain that brigandage has been entirely suppressed.
The conditions which favour the development of brigandage may be easily summed up.
The brigandage of Greece, southern Italy, Corsica and Spain had deeper roots, and has never been quite suppressed.
In such conditions as these brigandage cannot last.
Then and there it was that brigandage has flourished, and has been difficult to extirpate.
At the same time it would be going much too far to say that the absence of an efficient police is the sole cause of brigandage in countries not subject to foreign invasion, or where [v.
The history of brigandagein Spain is very similar.
Brigandage may be, and not infrequently has been, the last resource of a people subject to invasion.
The conditions which favourbrigandage have been more prevalent, and for longer, in Italy than elsewhere in western Europe, with the standing exception of Corsica, which is Italian in all but political allegiance.
A good bibliography of Spanish brigandagewill be found in the Reseña Historica de la Guardia Civil of Eugenio de la Iglesia (Madrid, 1898).
Since the organization of the excellent constabulary called "La Guardia Civil" by the duke of Ahumada, about 1844, brigandage has been well kept down.
The Bourbon dynasty reduced brigandage very much, and secured order on the main high-roads.
Another story is told of the time when brigandagewas rampant.
So efficacious were the uncompromising measures undertaken against brigandage that when barely two years had elapsed after the pope’s election, it had practically ceased to exist.
Famous in history for his romantic rise to power and for the austere manner in which he exercised it in the suppression of brigandage and crime.
During his papacy, assassination and brigandage incessantly vexed society; perpetual conflicts were fought in the streets between the retainers of powerful families.
Such a province had always its little problems of pacification to present to an energetic commander, and Marius's military talents were moderately exercised by the repression of the habitual brigandage of its inhabitants.
It only remained to scour the country with picked bands of soldiers for organised resistance to be shattered, and even for the curse of brigandage to be rooted out for a while.
There was violence, brigandageor murder on every hand.
War was the profession of your true chevalier and brigandage his pastime.
On the civil side, bread riots and brigandage were the order of the day at Chartres, but at last, under the Directory, comparative quiet began to be restored.
The accomplices of this act of brigandage are most agreeable men--Romieu, Morny.
Sakay was identified with Malabanan in some of the latter's most vicious undertakings, was convicted of brigandage and has been but recently released from Bilibid Prison.
But a number of hard characters have been concentrating recently in the Davao Gulf, a batch of discharged convicts who served long terms for brigandage and murder.
Article of the Patriote Français, May 19): "This brigandage is called assembly of combined sections.
For although I laughed at my wife's fears, they were really not so utterly without foundation as might at first appear, for we had recently heard of a most daring case of brigandage in the neighbourhood.
Now, after little more than a decade of constitutional rule, brigandage has almost disappeared from the face of the land, and travellers are comparatively safe.
The evil of brigandagewas done away, and the defence--so uncommonly difficult in these regions--of the frontier against the roving tribes of the desert was carried out with sternness and consistency.
Endless orders were issued by Aguinaldo and other high Insurgent officers, prohibiting rape, brigandage and robbery, and there was grave need of them.
With the final breaking up of organized brigandage in 1905 law and order may be said to have been established throughout the islands.
He says that these gentlemen found the authority of Aguinaldo's government universally acknowledged, the country in a state of perfect tranquillity and public order, [239] with profound peace and freedom from brigandage and the like.
It was intended that the constabulary should accomplish its ends by force when necessary but by sympathetic supervision when possible, suppressing brigandage and turning the people towards habits of peace.
The country in fact, as Aguinaldo always claimed in his proclamations of that period seeking recognition of his government by the Powers, in a state of profound peace and tranquillity--free from brigandage and the like.
I want merely to say that I have got together a considerable number of facts about brigandage altogether, and the late misfortune in particular, and only wait till I get back to put them into shape.
Mr Blackwood proposed that Lever should pay a visit to Greece, for the purpose of making investigations about an act of brigandage which had shocked the civilised world.
Our cowardly and selfish indifference increased the audacity of the seigneurs, until to-day we cannot set foot outside the cities without being exposed to the brigandage of the chatelains.
During those centuries of wars andbrigandage the Nerowegs had fortified their castle, while they lived on rapine and on the extortion of their villeins and their serfs.
Always ready for war upon his neighbors, or upon those troops of travelers that, at times, attempted to offer forcible resistance to the brigandage of the seigneurs, Neroweg VI.
As brigandage may be considered as in some way connected with sporting, inasmuch as many refrain from going out shooting when they fear being robbed and murdered, I will say a few words aboutbrigandage in Anatolia.
Brigandage has at times prevailed in some parts of Bulgaria, especially in the Balkan Mountains.
A very effectual check was thus put to the brigandage so prevalent before, and the attention of all classes was drawn to the character, position, and aims of the missionaries.
This had been an important factor in suppressing brigandage and highway robbery, and the proposed change in the law was highly undesirable.
Up to the time of the American occupation brigandage had been a crying evil throughout the islands.
