Saltpeter Wars

When

19th century

Kind

Rebellion

Coordinates

47.69° N, 8.09° E

Description

1725–27, 1738 and 1743–45

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

18th-century conflicts between peasants and the Austrian monarchy

The Saltpeter Wars were three conflicts among the peasants of the County of Hauenstein, the Abbey of Saint Blaise and the Austrian monarchy in the years 1725–1727, 1738 and 1743–1745. At times the conflict had the character of a civil war between two peasant factions: the müllerisch, named for the early leadership of the miller (müller) Joseph Tröndle, and the salpterisch, so named because one of its early leaders, H…

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