TIL about the Canicattì massacre, allegedly, American soldier George Herbert McCaffrey, ordered the shooting of Italian civilians and when the troops refused he himself killed about 8 civilians and he was never charged for the crime. Is that story accurate?
by /u/fiplefip in /r/AskHistorians
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