. 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. ld the re-lation of fiefs in the German families sprang up . Free cities ; con- in the mountain heights, federation of the-, , 1 1 ... four cantons. and others became free cities were Bern and Frey-burg. They attached themselves
. 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. ld the re-lation of fiefs in the German families sprang up . Free cities ; con- in the mountain heights, federation of the-, , 1 1 ... four cantons. and others became free cities were Bern and Frey-burg. They attached themselves tothe German empire. ]Meanwhile Zu-rich, Bern, and Basel formed an alli-ance, with the intention of makingthemselves absolutely independent, and,perhaps, the country with them. Theevent showed, however, that the inde-pendence of vSwitzerland was to be de-duced from another source. The threeancient cantons of vSchwytz—from whichthe modern name of the country andthe people has been derived—Uri, andUnterwalden entered into a league, everfamous in the annals of the countiy, toprotect themselves in common and todefend the freedom of their native land. THE SIV/SS. —RA CR E VOL UTION. 95 The immediate occasion from whichthe Swiss confederation took its rise was tons of the German empire, and thisproject the Swiss steadfastly RUTLl-SCENE OF THE CONJURATION. the death of Rudolph of had been eoinof on for the in- corporation of the Swiss cities as can- unity of the Swiss with the Austrians. After Rudolphs death the effort wasmade by Albert, his vSon, to promote the 96 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. Attempts tounite the Swisswith the Aus-trian Germans. Bern and Zurich flew at once into opensecession, and were successful in theirresistance, but Albert suc-ceeded temporarily in set-ting up his authority inSchwytz, Uri, and Unterwalden. Therewas on the common frontier of thesethree old cantons a meadow known as theRutli, where, on the night between the7th and 8t
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