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unusual facts about Forest Cantons



Battle of Laupen

To raise the siege, Bern raised a force of 6,000, consisting of Bernese, supported by Forest Cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden (who had entered a military alliance with Bern in 1323), and other allies (Simmental, Weissenburg, Oberhasli).

Bernese Chronicle

Even if Justinger’s monumental work appears to have been considerably influenced by older chronicles from Strasbourg, Basle, Constance and Zurich, researchers are generally agreed that the Bernese Chronicle constitutes the earliest record of the cruelties of the Habsburg governors towards the population of the Forest Cantons.


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