Battle of Morat

{{Short description|Swiss victory in the Burgundian Wars, 22 June 1476}}

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|partof=the Burgundian Wars

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|caption=Illustration from the Zürcher Schilling (1480/1484)

|date=22 June 1476

|place=Near Murten, Canton of Fribourg

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| map_type = Switzerland

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|result=Swiss victory

|combatant1=Duchy of Burgundy
Duchy of Savoy

|combatant2=Old Swiss Confederacy
Duchy of Lorraine
Upper Alsace{{cite web|url=https://www.murtenpanorama.ch/en/schlacht/212.php|title=The Panorama of the Battle of Murten - The Battle of Murten, 1476}}

|commander1=Charles the Bold
Jacques of Savoy
John of Luxembourg{{KIA}}

|commander2=Hans von Hallwyl
Hans Waldmann
Adrian von Bubenberg
René II, Duke of Lorraine

|strength1={{circa}} 12,000{{cite book | last = Vaughan | first = Richard | title = Charles the Bold : the last Valois Duke of Burgundy | publisher = The Boydell Press | location = Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. Rochester, NY | year = 2002 | isbn = 0851159184 |page=386|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GsKuCHXRuPMC&pg=386}}–{{circa}} 20,000{{cite encyclopedia | title=Murten, Battle of | encyclopedia=The Oxford encyclopedia of medieval warfare and military technology | publisher=Oxford University Press | accessdate=10 October 2012 | author=Schnerb, Bertrand | editor=Rogers, Clifford | year=2012 | volume=1 | location=New York | pages=37–38 | isbn=978-0-19-533403-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzwpq6bLHhMC&pg=RA2-PA38}}

|strength2={{circa}} 25,000Vaughan pg. 391

|casualties1= 6,000–10,000

|casualties2= 410

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{{Campaignbox Burgundian Wars}}

The Battle of Morat took place during the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) that was fought on 22 June 1476 between Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, and a Swiss Confederation army at Morat (Murten), about 30 kilometres from Bern. The result was a crushing defeat for the Burgundians at the hands of the Swiss.

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Further reading

  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Morat |volume= 18 |last= Coolidge |first= William Augustus Brevoort |author-link= William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge | pages = 815-816 |short=1 }}
  • Winkler, Albert (2010). [https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2830&context=facpub "The Battle of Murten: The Invasion of Charles the Bold and the Survival of the Swiss States,"] Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol.46, no. 1, pp. 8–34.