Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris
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Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris (March 1831 - April 8, 1924) was an Italian general, especially remembered for his harsh repression of riots in Milan in 1898, known as the Bava-Beccaris massacre.
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Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris was born in Fossano, and took part to Crimean War and the Italian Wars of Independence.
In May 1898, when serious riots broke out in Milan, the Italian government under Antonio di Rudinì declared the state of siege and general Bava-Beccaris, in its charge of extraordinary commissar in the city, ordered his soldiers to fire with cannons and muskets against the unarmed crowd, including also women and old people, who had erected several barricades during a strike. In recognition for this deed, he received the Great Cross of the Order of Savoy from King Humbert I and, on June, 1868, he was elected to the Italian Senate.
Bava-Beccaris retired on 1902. He died in Rome in 1924.
