There are two places, however, seen from the Rigi which concern us especially in treating of Arnold Winkelried and the battle of Sempach. Look out upon the rolling land of forest and meadow to the ...

Bosshard was revered in Switzerland for writing the poem, “The Song of Sempach,” which is about the Battle of Sempach, against the Austrian, which gave Helvetia, better known as Switzerland ...

Sempach, on July 9, 1386, was the battle that really put the fear of God – or, rather, of the common soldier – into Europe’s feudal nobility. On that battleground, the men of Lucerne ...

In 1367, nineteen years before the battle of Sempach, the name of a man Erni Winkelried was affixed as witness to a deed of transfer, Erni being the local diminutive of Arnold. The same name, ...