Banditry was pervasive in the Green Cadres. Many peasants engaged in it as a form of social protest by stealing from the rich to give to the poor – especially in the Carpathian (Slovakia and Moravia) and in Croatia-Slavonia. The Green Cadres enjoyed the appeal of romantic liberty in oral folk culture. It associated them with the legend of Juraj Jánošík, "Rokovnjači" highwaymen who evaded Napoleonic Wars-era conscription in Carinthia, and the Trenck's Pandurs – skirmisher unit famous for pillaging in the First and Second Silesian Wars. Several contemporary Green Cadres gained notoriety for their actions – for example in Slovenia, and Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga in Croatia-Slavonia. The latter joined forces with Božo Matijević to establish a band of highwaymen active until 1923. Čaruga gaind a popular nickname of "Slavonian Robin Hood" and was perceived as the sole champion of common people. His execution was witnessed by about 3,000 people.