Video : Swiss Confederation's Victory over Duchy of Savoy at Battle of Laupen

21-Jun-1339
Switzerland
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Illustration of the Battle of Laupen (1339) between Swiss forces and an army of the Dukes of Savoy. It still shows the old german red flag with a white cross upon it. The confederate forces are on the right. The Bernese victory at the Battle of Laupen helped bring Bern into the Swiss Confederation.
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| Artist: Diebold Schilling the Elder | Credit: The Spiez Chronicle of Diebold Schilling the Elder, around 1484; Image from http://www.rbvex.it/svizzeri.html; 2nd version from http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwi/images/zwi1.jpg
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