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Sonderbund War
Confederates
Sonderbund
Neutrals
Date
3–29 November 1847
Location
Switzerland
Result
Confederate victory
Dissolution of the Sonderbund
Federal constitution of 1848
Belligerents
Swiss Confederation
Aargau
Appenzell AR
Basel-Landschaft
Basel-Stadt
Bern
Geneva
Glarus
Graubünden
Schaffhausen
St. Gallen
Solothurn
Thurgau
Ticino
Vaud
Zürich
Sonderbund
Fribourg
Lucerne
Nidwalden
Obwalden
Schwyz
Uri
Valais
Zug
Commanders and leaders
Guillaume Henri Dufour
Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio
Strength
99,000
79,000
Casualties and losses
60[1] / 78[2] dead
386[1] / 260[2] wounded
33[1] dead
124[1] wounded
The Sonderbund War (German: Sonderbundskrieg, French: Guerre du Sonderbund, Italian: Guerra del Sonderbund) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland, then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons. It ensued after seven Catholic cantons formed the Sonderbund ("separate alliance") in 1845 to protect their interests against a centralization of power. The war concluded with the defeat of the Sonderbund. It resulted in the emergence of Switzerland as a federal state, concluding the period of political "restoration and regeneration" in Switzerland.[3]
The Sonderbund consisted of the cantons of Lucerne, Fribourg, Valais, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug,[4] all predominantly Catholic and governed by conservative administrations. The cantons of Ticino and Solothurn, also predominantly Catholic but governed by liberal administrations, did not join the alliance.
After the Tagsatzung (Federal Diet) declared the Sonderbund unconstitutional (October 1847) and ordered it dissolved by force, General Guillaume Henri Dufour led the federal army of 100,000 and defeated the Sonderbund forces under Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio in a campaign that lasted only a few weeks, from November 3 to November 29, and cost about 100 lives. Dufour ordered his troops to care for the injured, anticipating the formation of the Red Cross in which he participated a few years later. Major actions were fought at Fribourg, Geltwil (12 November), Lunnern, Lucerne, and finally at Gisikon (23 November), Meierskappel, and Schüpfheim, after which Lucerne capitulated on 24 November. The rest of the Sonderbund surrendered without armed resistance in the subsequent weeks.[5]
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^Joachim Remak, A very civil war. The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847 (1993).
^Stasi-Lauterburg, Jürg (2011). "200 Jahre Ulrich Ochsenbein". Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift: 34–35 – via E-Periodica.
^Ralph Weaver, Three Weeks in November: A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847 (2012).
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Guillaume Henri Dufour
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