The last years of the 1700s were full of struggles for supremacy in the territory. The churches of the territory try subterfuges of all kinds to put volunteers in the Bourbon army. But in 1799 Naples was invaded by the French and by volunteers joined the prisoners returned home.
In February, a citizen advised Mayor Eligio Angelini to distribute Bourbon rosettes. Thus those who had been decorated, mainly peasants of the town, went around the town with their breasts adorned with the royal sign. So despite the invasion of the French which took place in the territory of Naples and therefore of the whole kingdom, the city still liked the Bourbons. The French were already in the territory of Bari, when Moisè a citizen of Putignano along the road between Turi and Casamassima met a group of people who were the inhabitants of the city, where there was the state planted the Tree of Freedom, symbol of French domination .
Until 1808 the dominion of the Knights of Malta lasted until it became a Municipality of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The thought and the will of a United Italy found flourishing ground, for which the lodge was very flourishing, so in 1820 the liberal Putignan Avv. . Giuseppe Maria Romanazzi. In the end to stem the reaction wind that blew everywhere, which transmits, diets, passes to keep the liberals at bay. Of the Action Committee to hold the Italian Unity made part Camignano Morea as President for Putignano. From 1850 to 1860 all the meetings of the Provincial Committee for the Unification of Italy were held in Putignano.