200th anniversary of the execution of Andreas Hofer

[orendel]

Today 200 years ago the Tyrolian rebel leader Andreas Hofer was executed in Mantova.
This song is dedicated to him: http://bit.ly/akzyb0

Please note: This post is just to remember the historical event. It is not meant to be any offense to Italians 

[Etrusco]

Why should it be an offense for italians? Italians didn't kill Andreas Hofer!
I live in Mantova and we have a place and a monument to Hofer. Every year people come from Tyrol to celebrate ...
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Hi - Ciao - Servus

[orendel]

Why should it be an offense for italians? Italians didn't kill Andreas Hofer!
I live in Mantova and we have a place and a monument to Hofer. Every year people come from Tyrol to celebrate ...
No problem - Nessun problema - Keine Problem
Hi - Ciao - Servus

That's fine - I just added this note because some pics in the video have a Tyrolian nationalist attitude.
Myself - I'm Saxon and anyway not involved in this question 

[Count von Csollich]

Ohhh, our famous Andreas Hofer!!!

I am still amazed of how long he was able to fight the Bavarians...As I live about 3km from the place where all these famous battles of the Bergisel were fought...I am very pleased and greatful that someone besides me remembered and posted on this event..

thanks very much orendel!

and:

"Mander, s'isch Zeit!!!  

oh and: "Bei Gott, wie schießt ihr schlecht!" was his statement on how terrible shots the soldiers executing him were - as he had to be killed with the pistol of the officer...

CvC

[Fusilier]

Just for the record this is what I read about his death.

Officers holding the court martial disagreed on the exact sentence until they received a message from Milan. It was supposedly from the Viceroy, transmitting Napoleon's order to "give him a fair trial and then shoot him."

Later, Napoleon claimed to Metternich that Hofer was executed against his wishes.

He was a seriously brave patriot nevertheless and for that I salute him.

[DominiqueT]

He was a seriously brave patriot nevertheless and for that I salute him.

Of course he was ! Unfortunately for him, he was manipulated by the most extreme religious members of his entourage and was convinced to take up arms again. He had also been abandoned by the Habsburgs

Don't forget that the -and all the other Tyrolean fighters- had been pardoned and set free, on the condition that they wouldn't take up arms again.