The death of Lieutenant Rudolf von Werdt during the siege of Bern on 18 September 1802, an episode of the Stecklikrieg. Drawing by Karl Ludwig Zehender, 1805.
Date
August – 26 October 1802
Location
Helvetic Republic
Result
Federalist victory
Collapse of the Helvetic Republic
New French military occupation
Act of Mediation (10 March 1803)
Belligerents
Helvetic Republic
Federalists
Zürich
Bern
Luzern
Uri
Schwyz
Unterwalden
Glarus
Solothurn
Appenzell
Aargau
Commanders and leaders
Johann Rudolf Dolder
Alois von Reding Niklaus Franz von Bachmann
The Stecklikrieg ("War of Sticks") was a civil war in Switzerland in 1802 that resulted in the collapse of the Helvetic Republic, the renewed French occupation of Switzerland and ultimately the Act of Mediation dictated by Napoleon Bonaparte on 19 February 1803. The conflict itself was between insurgents, mostly drawn from the rural population, and the official forces of the Helvetic Republic. The term Stäckli, or "wooden club," from which the conflict draws its name, refers to the improvised weaponry of the insurgents.
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rural populations successfully rebelled against the government in the Stecklikrieg. In response to the collapse of the Helvetic Republic, Napoleon issued...
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