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TIL the Stecklikrieg was a Swiss civil war in 1802, where rural insurgents, armed with improvised wooden clubs named "Stäckli" fought the Helvetic Republic, leading to his collapse, French re-occupation and Napoleon's mediation dictated in 1803.

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