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HOFER, Andreas (1767-1810, Tyrolean patriot). Letter signed ('andreas hofer ober comandant in Tiroll') to Joseph Kirchberger, 'Von dem Tirolischen Landes Ober-Commando', Innsbruck, 11 September 1809, with a two-line autograph subscription, requiring the recipient to join a 'Schutz-Deputation' based at Bruneck (Brunico) to cover the Pustertal and Wipptal; any refusal would lead him to be considered as an enemy of his country ('daß man von ihnen keine Weigerung erwarte, widrigenfalls derselbe als ein Feind des Vaterlandes erkläret werden müßte'), one page, folio, integral address leaf (traces of paste to address leaf).
Hofer's armed rebellion against the Bavarian occupation of the Tyrol had begun on 9 April 1809; after a major victory over the French at Bergisel on 13/14 August, he was the effective ruler of the region; when Austria ceded the Tyrol to Bavaria in October of that year, he retreated to the mountains, and he was eventually captured and shot in 1810.
Hofer's armed rebellion against the Bavarian occupation of the Tyrol had begun on 9 April 1809; after a major victory over the French at Bergisel on 13/14 August, he was the effective ruler of the region; when Austria ceded the Tyrol to Bavaria in October of that year, he retreated to the mountains, and he was eventually captured and shot in 1810.
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