Stecklikrieg

Stecklikrieg
	; 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 Supported by:; France	Federalists Zürich; Bern; Lucerne; Uri; Schwyz; Unterwalden; Glarus; Solothurn; Appenzell; ; Aargau
Commanders and leaders
Johann Rudolf Dolder; Joseph Leonz Andermatt; Michel Ney	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 pitted federalist insurgents, mostly drawn from the rural population, against government forces of the unitary Helvetic Republic. The term Stäckli, or "wooden club," from which the conflict draws its name, refers to the improvised weaponry of the insurgents.