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List of wars involving Switzerland

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Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include:

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Old Swiss Confederacy

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Main article: List of battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy

Growth (1291–1523)

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Main article: Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy
Start Finish Name of conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
15 November 1315 Battle of Morgarten

part of

Old Swiss Confederacy Austria Archduchy of Austria
9 July 1386 Battle of Sempach

part of

Old Swiss Confederacy Austria Archduchy of Austria Decisive Swiss victory
30 June 1422 Battle of Arbedo Old Swiss Confederacy Duchy of Milan Defeat:
  • Temporarily discouraged Swiss expansion in the direction of Lake Maggiore
2 November 1440 12 June 1446 Old Zürich War Old Swiss Confederacy
Swiss Confederation victory
1474 1477 Burgundian Wars Old Swiss Confederacy

Duchy of Lorraine

Franco-Swiss victory
January 1499 September 1499 Swabian War Old Swiss Confederacy  Holy Roman Empire Swiss Confederation victory
1511 1516 War of the League of Cambrai
Defeat

Reformation (1523–1648)

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Main article: Reformation in Switzerland
Start Finish Name of conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
1529 First War of Kappel
  • Civil War of religions
 Protestant cantons Catholic cantons Unresolved, no actual battles fought
1531 Musso war
Duchy of Milan Victory
  • Increased Catholic-Protestant tension, leading to the Second War of Kappel
1531 Second War of Kappel
  • Civil War of religions
 Catholics:
 Protestants:
 Catholic cantons victory

Ancien Régime (1648–1798)

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Main article: Early Modern Switzerland
Start Finish Name of conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
January 1653 June 1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653
  • Civil War
 Peasant rebels City governments troops Military victory of the ruling city councils
1656 and 1712 The First War of Villmergen and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen)
  • Civil Wars of religion
Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second.

Napoleonic era and Restoration (1798–1848)

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Main article: Switzerland in the Napoleonic era
Start Finish Name of conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
1798 1799 French Revolutionary Wars French victory
1799 1802 War of the Second Coalition
French Republican victory
1802 Stecklikrieg
  • Civil war
Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Act of Mediation and creation of the Swiss Confederation
1806 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition
French victory
10 April 1809 14 October 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition
French victory
1813 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
Coalition Victory
20 March 1815 8 July 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition
Seventh Coalition:
Coalition victory
6 December 1830 6 December 1830 Freiämtersturm Freiämtersturm Freiämtersturm Victory
3 November 1847 29 November 1847 Sonderbund War
  • Civil war
 Swiss Confederation Sonderbund Confederation victory

Modern era

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Start Finish Name of conflict Belligerents Outcome
Allies Enemies
1940 1945 Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II Switzerland Switzerland
  • Downing of multiple allied aircraft by Swiss fighters
  • Bombings on multiple towns
  • U.S. Government paid Swiss $4 million and an additional $14.4 million (in 1944/45 dollars)
  • End of allied and German overflights following the end of World War II
1962 1966 Jura Conflict Switzerland Switzerland
Union of Bernese-Jurassic Patriots (1962-1964) 		Jura Liberation Front [fr] (1962-1964)

Second Jura Liberation Front (1965-1966)

Swiss Victory
  • Swiss Police arrests FLJ members and leader in 1964.
  • Second FLJ created in 1965, but Swiss police also captures them in 1966.
  • Jura becomes a canton in 1979.
2003 2008 War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Taliban victory

See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. 2010. p. 31.
  2. ^ Morgarten War in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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