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The Cudgel War (also known as the Club War; Finnish: Nuijasota; Swedish: Klubbekriget) was a 1596–1597 peasant uprising in Finland, which was then part of the Kingdom of Sweden. [2] The name of the uprising derives from the fact that the peasants armed themselves with various blunt weapons, such as cudgels , flails , and maces , since they ...
The author and historian Heikki Ylikangas has pointed out that there is a bias towards depicting Jaakko Ilkka as "the great Finnish leader of the Cudgel War," although he took command of the biggest peasant horde during the end of the Cudgel War in the winter of 1596.
Attack on Firebase Cudgel, 19 November 1967. The 5/60th Infantry commander Lieutenant Colonel William B. Steele deployed two of his companies in the paddyfields to the north and east of Cudgel with Company C at the firebase to protect Batteries C and D 2/4th Artillery and his reconnaissance platoon on the southern side of Ong Tai Creek accessible only by a narrow footbridge.
An assortment of club weapons from the Wujing Zongyao from left to right: flail, metal bat, double flail, truncheon, mace, barbed mace. A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon or tool [1] since prehistory.
Although this didn't help much and a few years later in August 1596 they did another trip to Stockholm and was told by duke Charles to "Answer violence with violence, and chase away those unlawful residents". Then the cudgel war was a reality, a former soldier in the Swedish army and wealthy landowner Jaakko Ilkka took command of the peasant army.
According to current research, the reasons for the rebellion included strain left from the 25-year war, financial setbacks and suffering caused by the castle camp system. Researchers disagree on how big an effect the duke Karl's leading the rebels against Klaus Fleming had on the outbreak of the Cudgel War. [26] [27]
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This is a list of wars and war-like conflicts involving Sweden. ... Cudgel War (1596–1597) Location: Finland. Sweden: Finnish rebels Nobility victory