Peasants' War (1798)

Peasants' War
Part of the French Revolutionary Wars

Peasants gathering, Constantin Meunier (1875)
Date12 October 1798 – 5 December 1798
(1 month and 23 days)
Location
Southern Netherlands annexed by the French Republic
Result French Republican victory
Belligerents
French Republic Brigands
Commanders and leaders
Claude-Sylvestre Colaud

Pieter Corbeels 
Emmanuel Rollier

Charles de Loupoigne †
Casualties and losses
In Flanders, c.15,000 dead
In Luxembourg, 200–300

The Peasants' War (French: Guerre des Paysans, Dutch: Boerenkrijg, German: Klöppelkrieg, Luxembourgish: Klëppelkrich) was a peasant revolt in 1798 against the French occupiers of the Southern Netherlands, a region which now includes Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Germany. The French had annexed the region in 1795 and control of the region was officially ceded to the French after the Treaty of Campo Formio in 1797. The revolt is considered part of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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