Corbeels remarried while living in Turnhout, and he left Turnhout in the summer of 1798 as a leader of the "Boerenkrijg" also known as the Peasants' War (1798) against the French. On 25 November 1798, he was caught in Postel and taken by the French, whereupon he ended up in the prison, and was executed, together with Albert Meulemans, on 21 June 1799 in Tournai.