Battle of Hard

When

20 Feb 1499

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

47.49° N, 9.69° E

Description

1499 battle

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

The Battle of Hard was the first large-scale battle in the Swabian War, waged between the Imperials under the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and the Swiss Confederates. The battle was fought on 20 February 1499, a cold and foggy day, between 10,000 Imperial troops, mostly from the Swabian Circles, and a smaller number of Swiss troops, often called Reisläufer.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Battle of Hard is fought near the village of Hard in modern-day western Austria as the Swiss Confederacy defeats the troops of the Holy Roman Empire in the…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Schlacht bei Hard ist die erste große Schlacht des Schwabenkrieges”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Swabian WarFeb 1499 · War