[2] In 1861 he was selected by General Clary, the Marseille-based leader of one of the secret committees that sought a Bourbon restoration in Southern Italy, to make a clandestine landing on the Italian coast.

[4] After a successful landing in Calabria, having found little support there for the Bourbon cause, Borjes embarked with his small company on a risky and adventurous journey into mountainous Basilicata in an attempt to establish contact with Carmine Crocco, the most famous leader of the Italian brigandage in the years following the Unification.

After other battles and retreating to Monticchio, one of his headquarters, Crocco broke the alliance with Borjes because he did not want to serve under a foreigner and did not believe the promise of the Bourbon government about the provision of reinforcements.

[6] Disappointed, Borjes planned to go to Rome, to inform King Francis II but, during the journey, he was captured in Tagliacozzo and shot by Italian soldiers headed by Major Enrico Franchini.

Borjes's journal was first published by the Swiss writer Marc Monnier in his book entitled Historie du Brigandage dans l'Italie Méridionale (Paris 1862).