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19th century in Switzerland: 19th-century Swiss people, Jean-André Deluc, Switzerland in the Napoleonic era, Germaine de Staël, Sonderbund war
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Paperback. Books LLC, Wiki Series 2011-06-25.
ISBN 9781156141489
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: 19th-century Swiss people, Jean-André Deluc, Switzerland in the Napoleonic era, Germaine de Staël, Sonderbund war, Bourla-papey, Restoration and Regeneration, Henry Fuseli, Switzerland as a federal state, Roland Scholl, Freiämtersturm, Act of Mediation, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Samuel Gobat, Frédéric-César de La Harpe, Hans Auer, Henri Nestlé, Modern history of Switzerland, Ustertag, Heinrich Menu von Minutoli, Johanna Spyri, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Peter Ochs, Alexandre Calame, Giuseppe Bernardazzi, Alfred Escher, Swiss Confederation, Ábrahám Ganz, Alois von Reding, Neuchâtel Crisis, Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Robert Saitschick, Ferdinand Keller, Adolf Guyer-Zeller, Karl Rudolf Graf von Buol-Schauenstein, Moritz Roth, Geneva franc, Ticino franco. Excerpt: During the French Revolutionary Wars, the revolutionary armies marched eastward, enveloping Switzerland in their battles against Austria. In 1798 Switzerland was completely overrun by the French and became the Helvetic Republic. The Helvetic Republic encountered severe economic and political problems. In 1798 the country became a battlefield of the Revolutionary Wars, culminating in the Battles of Zürich in 1799. In 1803 Napoleon's Act of Mediation reestablished a Swiss Confederation that partially restored the sovereignty of the cantons, and the former tributary and allied territories of Aargau, Thurgau, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino became cantons with equal rights. The Congress of Vienna of 1815 fully re-established Swiss independence and the European powers agreed to permanently recognise Swiss neutrality. At this time, the territory of Switzerland was increased for the last time, by the new cantons of Valais, Neuchâtel and Geneva. The Restoration, the time leading up to the Sonderbundskrieg, was marked with turmoil, and the rural population struggling
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