Indemini
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Indemini is a former municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Montoia alpine pasture, one of summer pastures near Indemini
Indemini village
Aerial view (1954)
Helvetic Republic
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The Helvetic Republic was a sister republic of France that existed between 1798 and 1803, during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was created following the French invasion and the consequent dissolut
Strategic situation of Europe in 1796
Alois von Reding led Central Swiss troops against the French.
Painted silk tricolour of the Helvetic Republic with image of William Tell and son, with motto Freÿheit, Gleichheit ('Freedom, Equality').
William Tell fights the revolution (1798), by Dunker, praises the struggle of the Old Confederation against the Helvetic revolution supported by French invasion. It depicts the Swiss folk hero William Tell, carrying a shield with the Rütlischwur, and his son fighting the revolution, represented as a chimera wearing a phrygian cap