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.
See also
References
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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.
External links
- [http://www.npmedia.com/panorama/ Panorama of the Battle of Morat]
- [http://www.murtenpanorama.ch The panorama of the battle of Murten, official site]
- [https://paulbourke.net/MurtenStory/ Murten Panorama Digital Twin Scanning Project - "the making of"]
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Category:15th century in the Old Swiss Confederacy