October 1802

early days of the Romanian earthquakes

The ("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 pitted federalist insurgents, mostly drawn from the rural population, against government forces of the unitary Helvetic Republic. The term , or "wooden club," from which the conflict draws its name, refers to the improvised weaponry of the insurgents.