!!!Sempach

Sempach, small town in the canton of Luzern (Lucerne, Switzerland), 
founded by the Habsburgs around 1120 as a way station on the Gotthart 
road; sympathised with the Swiss Confederates (Luzern) in 1386. On 
July 9, 1386 duke  Leopold III and his army of knights 
(approximately 700 men) had to surrender to the urban and peasant 
infantry near Sempach. As a result, the reign of the Habsburgs came to 
an end on the Upper Rhine, and the Swiss Confederation was 
strengthened.

!Literature
W. Schaufelberger, Spaet-Mittelalter, in: Handbuch der 
Schweizer Geschichte, vol. 1, 1980.


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