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Battle of Sempach

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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near Sempach · Lake Sempach · Lucerne

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 9 July 1386, the forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy defeated a Habsburg army near Sempach in Lucerne; Duke Leopold III of Austria and many Austrian nobles were killed. The victory was a turning point in consolidating Swiss independence from Habsburg overlordship.

Belligerents2

Old Swiss Confederacy
Habsburg Austria

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Sempach
Britannica: Battle of Sempach
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Sempach (1386). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-sempach · Sources & methodology