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| | Parthenopean Republic |
 | | Five months after its formation on 29 January 1799, the Neapolitan Republic was teetering under the combined onslaught of Cardinal Ruffo's popular, royalist army of Sanfedisti recruited from the bellicose peasants and bandits of Calabria, and the Lazzaroni, poor, unemployed, but devotedly royalist Neapolitans. |
 | | And those Republicans put to death, imprisoned and exiled for their part in establishing the Republic were not revolutionaries from the lower social orders but lords, gentlemen, generals, admirals, writers, poets, scientists, philosophers and lawyers. |
 | | As soon as the French army withdrew to the northern theatre of war, the Republic fell to the legions of Sanfedisti and lazzaroni, who began sacking the city then applauded the punitive measures taken by the monarchs and the English against the Republicans. |
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