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Tyrolean Rebellion 1809

Tyrolean Rebellion
Part of the War of the Fifth Coalition
Franz von Defregger Heimkehrender Tiroler Landsturm.jpg
Homecoming of Tyrolean Militia in the War of 1809 by Franz Defregger
Date April–November 1809
Location Tyrol
Result French victory
Rebellion crushed
Belligerents

France French Empire

Tyrolean partisans

Supported by:
 Austria
Commanders and leaders
France François-Joseph Lefebvre
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Prince Eugène
France Jean-Baptiste Drouet
Kingdom of Bavaria Karl Philipp Wrede
Andreas Hofer 
Peter Mayr 
Strength
42,000 20,000
Casualties and losses
5,000 2,500

France French Empire

Tyrolean partisans

The Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809 (German: Tiroler Volksaufstand) was a rebellion of peasants in the County of Tyrol led by Andreas Hofer against the occupation of their homeland by the French and Bavarian troops within the context of the War of the Fifth Coalition against Napoleon I.

In September 1805 the Electorate of Bavaria under Prince-elector Maximilian I Joseph of Wittelsbach, that had been allied with the Habsburg Monarchy under the common federally structured Holy Roman Empire, went over to Napoleonic France: the Bavarian Minister Count Maximilian von Montgelas, realizing the French superiority while fearing the ambitions of the newly established Austrian Empire, signed a secret defence alliance at Bogenhausen. At the end of the War of the Third Coalition shortly afterwards, Bavaria found itself on the victorious side. Upon the 1805 Peace of Pressburg it not only was elevated to a kingdom, it also gained French-occupied Tyrol, which since 1363 had been held by the Austrian Habsburgs, who, heavily defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz, were forced to renounce it. The French officially handed over the Tyrolean county including the secularized Bishopric of Trent (Trentino) to Bavaria on 11 February 1806.


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