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Group: Würzburg, Bishopric of
People: Hasdrubal the Fair
Topic: Club War, or Cudgel War

Club War, or Cudgel War

Years: 1596 - 1597

The name of the uprising known as the Club War (also Cudgel War), a 1596 peasant uprising in the kingdom of Sweden against exploitation by nobility and military in what is today Finland, derives from the fact that the peasants cannot afford Zweihander swords, mounts and lances or muskets that can reliably penetrate the plate armor of the knights, thus they arm themselves with maces, iron cudgels and other blunt weapons.

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator (46 BCE)