Hello All, Apologies for the late reply. Loyal Rebels, is a decent book and an ok introduction to the Alpine phase of the 1809 campaign. It does fall down in some aspects, particularly when explaining the social construct of Tyrol and making an outdated and somewhat 'romantacised' point that the rebellion was about fierce geographic determinism - a violent reflection of the peoples mountainous character. The general consensus, and one I would agree with, is that the revolt was an opposition to the modernisation of the region under Bavarian rule.

Thanks to the pragmatic particularism of the Habsburg rule, of which Tyrol was apart of until 1805, the land holders, gentry and traders had very specific rights. Rights which had survived the centralisation and reformation of the Habsburg administrative arm in the eighteenth century.

The attempts by the Bavarians between 1806 and 1809 to reform the fiscal, administrative and religious reforms were far reaching and extraneous and did little to placate an already maligned population. This was not a peasant revolt, or a local insurgency. The peasants seldom had any say in ruling the land, but the replacement of the Tyrolian constitution with a Bavarian one had a direct and somewhat negative impact on the wealthier class. Of which Andreas Hofer was one of.

Nor was the struggle in Tyrol or the Vorlande a purely anti-french. It was predominantly between the local populous who had enjoyed the local rights under the House of Habsburg versus the recently promoted principalities of the Confederation of the Rhine, most predominantly Bavaria who wish to husband the resources of their new acquisitions in support of their position. Bavaria's inability to properly contain the local uprising, whose actions against them were only supported by a small contingent of regular troops - much less than their champion Archduke John had promised - and were predominantly fixed battles. Though there was small isolated raiding and ambushing of allied continents, the locally organised hunters suffered a lack of command and control to properly conduct what we might view as insurgency operations. They were certainly a nuisance, but more of an issue to the relations between Bavaria and France and less a operational or strategic one. Once the Treaty of Schonbrunn was signed and the end of recognised action, Hofer and his supporters slowly drifted away, until it all ended rather sadly.

I would recommend John Gill's With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and his German allies in the 1809 campaign - Chapter 7 Alps aflame, for a more modern interpretation. Though, very heavy on the operational detail it gives a clear outline of the socio-economic grievances and the fallacy of Austrian patriotism or any german national sentiments. After all it was largely a campaign between Germans and Germans.

If your German is up to scratch try:

Werner Kofler, Die Kampfe am Bergisel 1809, Wien: Bundesverlag, 1983.

Josef Hirn, Tirols Erhebung im Jahre 1809, Innsbruck: Haymon, 1983.

A good French memoir in english:

Louis-Francois Lejeune, Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Nancy Bells, trans. Felling: Worley, 1987, Vol 1.

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To answer the question, I actually haven't read a book specifically on the Tyrolean Revolt. Even the sources I have are rather skimp on information on the uprising itself, constituting three total entries in the three books I had time to check. Based on what I am finding, Loyal Rebels: Andreas Hofer and the Tyrolean Uprising of 1809 is going to be the best source in English for that. Out of the three sources that I had time to check, two mentioned Hofer and the Tyrolean Revolt, and both cited Eyck as their source.

However, I am willing to bet there are some good sources in the German/Austrian press what with Hofer being kind of a folk hero, but that's outside of my specific area of knowledge (my German isn't exactly up to rigorous academic levels yet, I'm afraid, really more good for ordering beers and making people laugh with my awful accent).