. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. th of July. In thatyear the Austrian Arnold von Winkelried sufficed, by self-sacrifice, to make an opening in theAustrian phalanx, with which the vSwissmade a charge and routed the enemy todefeat and overthrow. If we pause to consider a moment thesignifica
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. th of July. In thatyear the Austrian Arnold von Winkelried sufficed, by self-sacrifice, to make an opening in theAustrian phalanx, with which the vSwissmade a charge and routed the enemy todefeat and overthrow. If we pause to consider a moment thesignificance of these terrible battles of Climax of Sem pach; episode army made its wayinto the of Winkelried. country,and the league prepared resist-ance. iVgain the disparity ofnumbers was about four to III was now emperor—nephew of him whom the Swisshad overthrown at battle took place at Sempach,ever afterwards memorable inthe annals of the field is described as an area^f sloping meadowland, crossedby streams and hedges. Thesituation was such as to compel the Aus-trians, who were in armor, to dismount,and the day so hot as to be unendura-ble to a foreign soldiery. It was a longtime, however, before the Austrian linescould be broken. Finally, as is known to all the world, the heroic audacity of 7. BLOWING THE ALP HORN. the Swiss against the Austrians, we shallfind, perhaps, that they are significance ofan expression of old tribal S^/^JrusIantipathies, going back the times when the inhabitants ofUri, Unterwalden, and Schwytz wereCeltic. As the traveler to-day passes 98 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. over the country from the higher moun-tain regions down toward Baden intothe land of farmers and peasants, fromthe land of chamois hunters and goatherds, he will be surprised at the ethnicchange which passes over the is evident that the people of thelower country toward Baden are Ger-manic, those on the French border from in a former
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