Everything about Battle Of Dornach totally explained
At the
Battle of Dornach on
22 July 1499, the troops of Emperor
Maximilian I were decisively beaten by the
Old Swiss Confederacy close to the Swiss village of
Dornach . This concluded the
Swabian War, between the Swiss and the
Swabian League, and amounted to
de-facto independence of Switzerland from the
Holy Roman Empire, acknowledged by Maximilian in the
Treaty of Basel on
22 September (the independence was however not formally recognized until the
Peace of Westphalia of
1648).
On
19 July, Imperial troops marching on Dorneck castle were sighted, and
Solothurn called
Berne for help. Berne sent 5000 troops,
Zurich 400, and smaller contingents from
Uri,
Unterwalden and
Zug also started to move to Dornach. On
20 July 600 troops left
Lucerne. The first attacks on
July 22 were executed by the troops of Berne, Zurich and Solothurn, but they were beaten back. Only with the arrival of the reinforcements from Lucerne and Zug, which suddenly broke out of the woods "with horns and shouting" would the Imperial troops be turned to flight after several hours' fighting.
The commander of the Imperial troops,
Heinrich von Fürstenberg, was killed at the early stages of fighting. When Maximilian in
Überlingen heard about the lost battle, he was reportedly devastated by the news.
The battle of Dornach was the last armed conflict between the Swiss and the
Holy Roman Empire.
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