Sonderbund War
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The Sonderbund War 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 in 1845 to protec
The general staff of the federal army: Kurz, Minscher, Enloff, Bontemps, Gerwer, Müller, Ziegler, Bourkhardt, Dufour, Rilliet de Constant, Luvini, Donats, Ochsenbein and Gmür
Swiss Army uniforms of the Sonderbund War
The 2nd Division crosses the Emme river into Littau.
Jean-Ulrich de Salis-Soglio
Guillaume Henri Dufour
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Guillaume Henri Dufour was a Swiss military officer, structural engineer and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and held the Swiss office of General four times in his career, firstly in 1847 when
Sonderbund War
…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…
Portrait of Dufour by his daughter Anne Octavie L'Hardy Dufour (1818–1891), after 1840
Daguerreotype of general G.H. Dufour, c. 1848
Equestrian statue (1884) by Alfred Lanz, at Place Neuve, Geneva
20 francs note (1956)