Josef Speckbacher [SEP] date of death
Josef Speckbacher
Josef Speckbacher (13 July 1767, Gnadenwald – 28 March 1820, Hall in Tirol ) was a leading figure in the rebellion of the Tyrol against Napoleon.
His Life.
Josef Speckbacher was born on July 13, 1767 in Gnadenwald, near Hall, in Austria's Tyrolean Alps. He was a peasant’s son, for Speckbacher’s father supplied wood for the salt mines of Hall for a living. Receiving only a brief education, Josef roamed the woods, poaching by the age of twelve,
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