Posted on 02/20/2021 8:44:09 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1810, Tyrolean hero Andreas Hofer was shot in Mantua. Hofer (English Wikipedia entry | German) was the heir to his father’s Sandhof Inn in tiny St. Leonhard — a village today that’s just over the Italian border but was in Hofer’s time part of a Tyrol undivided by nation-state borders.
This county took pride in its ancient affiliation to the House of Habsburg, who had once even made its imperial headquarters in Tyrolean Innsbruck. When in the aftermath of crushing Austria at Austerlitz the rampant Corsican transferred Tyrol to the overlordship of his ally the King of Bavaria, he did not transfer their affections: indeed, when Bavaria imposed upon its new prize the Bavarian constitution, along with added levies of taxation and military conscription, she sowed the dragon’s teeth.
Hofer emerged as one of the leaders of the anti-Bavarian party in the Tyrol’s south, and joined an 1809 delegation to Vienna to secure Habsburg support for an internal rising.....
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Napoleon is reputed to have ordered: “give him a fair trial and then shoot him.”
Thanks for posting that.
There was apparently a plan, that if the Nazis invaded Switzerland then a last stand would be made in that corner, bringing together Tyroleans from an area that is now divided between Switzerland, Italy and Austria. I think it was betrayed and many rounded up by the Nazis in Austria.
Being shot in the mantua. That must have hurt!
Being shot in the mantua. That must have hurt!
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