... and swiftly killed the local French regime. As the tale spread, to other regions they to rose up against the invaders with a cry of revenge, until the island was ridden of all foreign invaders. There has been speculation that even another version of the beginning of the mafia began when the French invaded in 1282. many of the patriotic Sicilians retaliated with their own motto, "Morre ... Sicilians and other Southern Italians which migrated here in the first mass migration from their country all had two things in common they were poor and uneducated. Most of these immigrants were peasan...

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