Bern Crushes the Nobility: Great Victory Of Laupen [158]-166
Bern of a military bent—Forms a West Swiss Union—Siege of Solothurn—Bern opposes the Habsburgs—Acquires Laupen—Victory at Laupen—League of the Eight States completed.
XV.
The Battles of Sempach and Naefels [167]-178
Opposition to Austria—Leopold III., Character of—His plans—Defeat and death at Sempach—Winkelried—Battle of Naefels.
XVI.
How Switzerland came to have Subject Lands [179]-189
Acquisition of surrounding territories desirable—Appenzell—Valais—Graubünden—Aargau—Quarrels with Milan.