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    Villmergen is a municipality in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Two famous battles took place at Villmergen. In 2010...
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    The Toggenburg War, also known as the Second War of Villmergen or the Swiss Civil War of 1712, was a Swiss civil war during the Old Swiss Confederacy from...
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    The First War of Villmergen was a Swiss religious war which lasted from 5 January until 7 March 1656, at the time of the Old Swiss Confederacy. On one...
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    later. Second War of Kappel (1531) First War of Villmergen (1656) Toggenburg War or Second War of Villmergen (1712) Sonderbund War (1847) First War of Kappel...
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    Battle of Villmergen may refer to either of two battles between the Reformed and Catholic cantons of Switzerland fought at Villmergen (47°21′N 8°15′E...
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    in further violence at the First War of Villmergen, in 1656, and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen), in 1712. In 1798, the revolutionary French...
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    the fourth Landfrieden of 1712. First War of Villmergen (1656) Toggenburg War or Second War of Villmergen (1712) Sonderbund War (1847) Johannes Salat Helmut...
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    districts, named the Freie Ämter (free bailiwicks) – Mellingen, Muri, Villmergen, and Bremgarten, with the countship of Baden – were governed as "subject...
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    was blocked by Catholic opposition, which led to the first battle of Villmergen in 1656; the Catholic party won, cementing the status quo. The problems...
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    Respublica Tigurina Virgo (1607), a Lucerna shown in 1658 with the victor of Villmergen, Christoph Pfyffer, and a Berna of 1682. Over the next half-century, Merian's...
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