Swiss Win Independence at Dornach
1499
Swiss confederate forces defeated a Swabian imperial army at Dornach, effectively ending Habsburg claims over the cantons. The Treaty of Basel recognized Swiss independence in all but name. The mountain republics had achieved, through pike and patience, what the Italian city-states could not. A federal alternative to monarchy had survived.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.