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Encyclopedia Britannica



MORGARTEN

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 836 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORGARTEN , the name of the pasture slopes that descend westwards to the
south
  end of the lake of Aegeri in the Swiss
canton
  of Zug, about 2 M. by road from the Sattel station on the railway line from Schwyz to Zurich. It was at the foot of these slopes and on the shore of the lake that the small Swiss force defeated the large Austrian army, advancing from Zug on Schwyz, on the 15th of November 1315, and so laid the
foundations
  of Swiss liberty. As the lake has shrunk, the exact site of the
battle
  has been disputed. It seems most probable that it took
place
  near the Haselmatt Chapel, in the territory of Zug, where is the official
monument
 , but some hold that the real site was in Schwyz territory, near the old tower and
battle
  chapel of Schornen, in the gorge between the lake and Sattel.
The
original
  accounts of the battle are collected in
part
  iii. (1884) of
the Mitteilungen of the Historical Society of Schwyz. See also the careful study in K. Burkli's Ein Denkmal am Morgarten wo ist sein Platz? (Zug, 1895).


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