. Battles of the nineteenth century . eparated by the cantons ofBern and Vaud from the rest of those com-posing the Sonderbund. His strategy for thispurpose was simple, but effective. The town ofFribourg is not more than sixteen or seventeenmiles from Bern, in a westerly direction. It wasstrongly fortified, and defended by a force of his first division, under Colonel Rilliet, toadvance in three brigades from Vevey, Moudon,and Payerne, in Canton Vaud, with instructionsto reach Matran, some four miles south-west ofFribourg, on November 12th. This manoeuvrewas executed punctually. At the same tim
. Battles of the nineteenth century . eparated by the cantons ofBern and Vaud from the rest of those com-posing the Sonderbund. His strategy for thispurpose was simple, but effective. The town ofFribourg is not more than sixteen or seventeenmiles from Bern, in a westerly direction. It wasstrongly fortified, and defended by a force of his first division, under Colonel Rilliet, toadvance in three brigades from Vevey, Moudon,and Payerne, in Canton Vaud, with instructionsto reach Matran, some four miles south-west ofFribourg, on November 12th. This manoeuvrewas executed punctually. At the same timeColonel Burckhardts division, which had beenstationed in Canton Bern, instead of advancingdirectly upon Fribourg, made a night-march tothe right, and took up a position about thesame distance north-west of the town. Lastly,Colonel Ochsenbein was directed to make ademonstration on the side of Bern, so as todraw off the attention of the defenders fromthe movements on the west and north, and atthe same time to watch the approaches from. major scherrer seized the colours (/. 144). from 12,000 to 15,000 men. The defendersnaturally expected that the attack would comefrom the direction of the Federal capital, andthey had made their arrangements to resist iton that side by throwing up batteries andblocking the roads with trees. Dufour caused the south. These dispositions were all soaccurately carried out that on the morning orNovember 13th Dufour was able to send a missiveto the mayor of Fribourg, pointing out that hiscity was surrounded by superior forces—theywere from 25,000 to 30,000 men, with sixty 142 BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY guns—and that under the circumstances hecould surrender without discredit. The authori-ties of the citv !-a\v the force of his arguments,and agreed to an armistice for twenty-fourhours ; and on the following day a capitulationwas signed, the first article of which boundFribourg to leave the Sonderbund success was not quite bloodle
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