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Regno delle Due Sicilie
Topic Started: Jun 16 2009, 05:28 AM (484 Views)
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Kingdom of Two Sicilies

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King : Ferdinand I ( IV of Naples ) di Borbone
Heir : Francesco I, Duke of Calabria
Population : 6,700,000 (0.8% growth)
Capital : Naples
Official Language : Italian
GDP : £
Revenues : £1,300,000
Currency : scudo


In 1799 the French invaders established an illegitimate Republic in Naples . This Republic was however always limited to the arounds of Naples, because a revolt of peasants in favour of the Dinasty soon menaced its power .
The rebels, led by Cardinal Ruffo and supplied by the British Army, soon found themselves in Naples and deposed very violently the ruling class of the Republic .
The Borbons stayed in charge until 1812, when Napoleon established his general Murat over the throne of Naples .

The Borbons refuged themselves in Sicily, where, to survive, they had to give huge priviledges to the Sicilian lords who would notoriously encourage and give birth to the famous trend called " Mafia " .
In 1814 Murat sided with the Anti-Napoleonic forces, hoping to mantain his territory, but this was useless as both the Britons and the Austrians had ties with the Borbons and wanted them to rule South Italy .
So in 1815 we find Murat along Napoleon in his desperate one hundred days before Waterloo ; after the defeat of Napoleon, Murat led his troops to defend what he considered to be his kingdom, but war defeated by overwhelming forces near Pollenza .
He was successively shot .

So the Borbons came back but something had changed : the moderate and relatively progressist Ferdinand IV ( now Ferdinand I ) had become psychotic and obsessed by revolutions and the administration was divided in the two factions of the progressist Murattians and the conservative nobles who had stayed in the side of the dinasty during all the French occupation .
A constitution was however promessed to the two kingdoms : Sicily and the Continental Siuthern Italy ( la " Terra di Lavoro ", where however nobody worked seriously, observed some German travelers ) .
Now the Kingdom is in full restructuration, infinite complications but also possibilities are wide open for the Kingdom .
Ferdinando I di Borbone, Re delle Due Sicilie

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Real Esercito

The Royal Borbonic Army counts a large number of regiments, divided in Gendarmery, Line Infantry, Light Infantry and Cavalry .

The Line Infantry has 15 regiments and 3 Grenadiers Regiments .
Moreover the Kingdom disposes of 4 Swiss Infantry Regiment which are deployed to defend the Royal Palace and the city of Naples from eventual insurrections .
The Light Infantry, reputed for its effectiveness, is formed by 16 regiments .
The Cavalry is composed by 5 regiments among which there are the Real Lanceri, which protects Naples .
The Gendarmery is composed by 5 Regiments .
The Artillery disposes of 15 batteries deployed each with one Line Infantry Regiment plus a battery trasported by horses .
Finally there are two regiments of pioneers .
So the Royal Army totalizes :

15 Line Infantry Regiments
3 Grenadiers Regiments
4 Swiss Guards Regiments
16 Light Infantry ( Cacciatori ) Regiments

Upkeep : £380.000

11 Cavalry Regiments

Upkeep : £110.000

16 Artillery Batteries

Upkeep : £ 32.000

For a total of 57.200 soldiers and Officers and 160 Guns .

Regia Marina

The Navy of the Kindom has suffered huge losses in 1799, when half of the fleet has been destroyed by the government in order to prevent its capture from the French troops .
Currently the fleets counts four line vessels ( three of them with 74 cannons, and one with 60 cannons ), eight frigades ( six with 40 cannons and two with 35 ), ten sloops with 12 cannons and ten transports with 3 cannons .
It counts moreover one Marine Infantry Regiment .

Upkeep : £88.500
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Order of Battle

Naples Garrison :

Ist Regiment Real Granatieri ( élite )
2nd Regiment Granatieri ( élite )
1st Regiment Real Marina : deployed in the harbour of Naples
3rd Regiment Chasseurs ( élite )
2nd Swiss Regiment ( élite )
3rd Swiss Regiment ( élite )
3rd Light Infantry Brigade
13th Light Infantry Brigade
14th Light Infantry Brigade
15th Light Infantry Brigade
16th Light Infantry Brigade
1st Regiment Dragoni
1st Regiment Ussari of the Royal Guard ( élite )
3rd Artillery Battery
4th Artillery Battery
Regiment Artefici

Army of Campania :

1st Regiment Re : deployed in Gaeta
1st Battery with the Regiment Re
1st Swiss Regiment ( élite ): deployed in Caserta
4th Swiss Regiment ( élite ): deployed in Pozzuoli
3rd Regiment Granatieri ( élite ): deployed in Capua
5th Regiment Borbone : deployed in Gaeta
7th Regiment Napoli : deployed in Gaeta
1st Regiment Cacciatori a Cavallo ( élite ) : deployed in Nocera
14th Regiment Sannio : deployed in Salerno
1st Brigade Carabinieri Leggeri : deployed in Nocera
2nd Brigade Carabinieri Leggeri : idem
3rd Brigade Carabinieri Leggeri : deployed in Mercato San Severino ( Salerno )
4th Brigade Veteran Carabinieri : deployed in Pozzuoli
1st Brigade Lancers ( élite ) : deployed in Caserta
1st Battery : deployed in Santa Maria
12th Battery : deployed in Monteleone
Horse Battery : deployed in Nocera


Army of the Abruzzi :

1st Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in L'Aquila
7th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in the San Benedetto del Tronto
10th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Teramo
11th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Chieti
12th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Pescara
10th Regiment Abruzzo : deployed in Pescara
9th Battery : deployed in Pescara
10th Battery : deployed in Trapani
11th Battery : deployed in Chieti


Army of Sicily :

2rgt Ussari of the Royal Guard ( élite ) : deployed in Agrigento
5th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Catania
6th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Messina
8th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Palermo
9th Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Monreale
2nd Light Infantry Brigade : deployed in Palermo
2nd Regiment Regina : deployed in Girgenti
2nd Battery with the Regiment Regina
3rd Regiment Principe : deployed in Messina
4th Regiment Principessa : deployed in Palermo
6th Regiment Farnese : deployed in Palermo
11th Regiment Palermo : deployed in Siracusa
12th Regiment Messina : deployed in Messina
13rd Regiment Lucania : deployed in Agrigento
1st Regiment " Carabinieri a Piedi " : deployed in Palermo
2nd Regiment Dragoni : idem
3rd Regiment Dragoni : deployed in Palermo
5th Battery : deployed in Palermo
6th Battery : deployed in Palermo
7th Battery : deployed in Messina
13th Battery : deployed in Messina
14th Battery : idem
15th Battery : deployed in Palermo


Army of Calabria

8th Regiment Calabria : deployed in Cosenza
4th Brigade : deployed in Matera

Army of Puglia

2nd Battery : deployed in Bari
9th Regiment Puglia : deployed in Bari
15th Regiment Messapia : deployed in Lecce

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