Treasury of knowledge and library of reference Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...D. 400, when this country was conquered by the Bnrgundians and Germans, whose power, however, for s sanne. Lucerne. Scaffhausen. St. Gall Frlourg.Neufchatel.and Coire; common schools arrt generally lur.ibLlsheil in the various can time, was little more than nominal. About the year 634, pan of Switzerland was given to SiVeUert, Count of Hapsburs. the founder of the House of Austria, and in the year 1032, the rest of this country was given by Hodolph, the last king of Burgundy to Conrad If, Emnerour of Germany, and from that period Switzerland was considered as part of that empire. This country was subject to the house of Austria for alont three hundred years, and the people suffered great oppression from the Austrian povefnnurs. The Swiss applied to Albert L for redress, but so far from their grievances being removed, the Austrians increased their hardships. f3W ter, the Austrian governourof Uri, exerted the most wanton tyranny over the Swiss, and ordered the people, among other things, to bow down to a cap placed on a po'e In the market place of Abort, as the representative of authority. William Tell, a native of Berne, and a celebrated marksman, refused,o obey, and treated the mandate with contempt. The tyrant condemned him to Buffer Jeath, unless he cleft with an arrow from a bow. an apple placed on t!«e head of his (Teli's) sou, standing at a di.stauce. Tell performed the task with dexterity, but having declared that he would have shot tiresler if lie had untortunately killed his son, he was sent to prison. He soon escaped, and shut the governmr. This transaction hastened a plan, which had been tome lime before formed by certain cjwiss leaders, to attempt to gam their liberty. The three mountainous cantons of Schweiiz, Uri, and Underwalden, were the...