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Swiss and commanders
These commanders would vote on the policy of the Swiss army.
With a record such as but few of Napoleon's divisional commanders possessed, he entered Spain in 1808 at the head of a motley corps made up of provisional battalions and Swiss troops impressed into French service from the Spanish Royal Army ( see Peninsular War ).
As the French forces entered Swiss territory at Basel, the Swiss commanders stationed at Farnsburg decided to send an advance troop of 1, 300, mostly young pikemen.
De Watteville's nominally Swiss regiment was made up of men from all over Europe, many of them former prisoners of war or deserters from the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the British commanders suspected their loyalty.
After their victories in the Burgundian Wars, the Swiss had battle tested troops and commanders.

Swiss and wired
Campus-wide Wi-Fi and wired Internet access connects students to the Swiss SWITCH network.
A Swiss national, Oliver Fricker was charged with three charges of trespassing into the depot on the early hours of May 17 and vandalising the train by spraying paint and damaging public property by cutting a wired fence into property belonging to the Land Transport Authority.

Swiss and infrastructure
Following the disappearance of WikiLeaks during the following week and its forced move to wikileaks. ch, a Swiss domain, the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned of the dangers of having key pieces of Internet infrastructure such as DNS name translation under corporate control.
Brokat's product families multi-channel infrastructure software, rules management and personalization technology, mobile payment software, and e-finance applications were used by over 3, 500 enterprises worldwide including Deutsche Bank, ABN Amro, Allianz, Bank of America, Blue Martini Software, Charter One, DaimlerChrysler, DBS Bank, Fidelity Investments, IBM Corporation, LBBW, MasterCard International, SE-Banken, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Post, T-Motion ( a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom ), and Toyota.
Here the infrastructure for the High Command of the Swiss Federal Army in an event of war was built.

Swiss and leading
The Swiss won at Morgarten, Laupen, Sempach, Grandson and Murten, and between 1450 and 1550 every leading prince in Europe hired Swiss pikemen, or emulated their tactics and weapons ( e. g., the German Landsknechte ).
The Institute of International Law was formed in 1873 by the Belgian Jurist Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, leading to the creation of concrete legal drafts, for example by the Swiss Johaan Bluntschli in 1866.
* Ian Posgate, one of Lloyd's leading underwriters, was charged with skimming money from investors and secretly trying to buy a Swiss bank ; he was later acquitted.
The king's Swiss Guard was given the task of killing a list of leading Protestants.
In October 1889 he read a biography of Conrad Gessner, a Swiss naturalist and a leading figure of modern biology, and swore he would become Japan's Gessner, which was when his quest for the wonders of cryptogam began.
John James ( Johann Jacob ) Heidegger ( 19 June 1666-5 September 1749 ) was a Swiss count and leading impresario of masquerades in the early part of the 18th century.
* Frédéric-César de La Harpe ( 1754 – 1838 ) a Swiss political leader and Vaudois patriot, who played a leading role in the creation of the Helvetic Republic was born in Rolle.
The Swiss Confederacy did not accept the resolutions of the Imperial Diet and explicitly refused to pay the Common Penny, one of the circumstances leading to the Swabian War of 1499 and the Confederacy's exemption from imperial legislation.
While the early part of the Wars continued to see landsknechts and Swiss mercenaries dominate, the Italian War of 1521 demonstrated the power of massed firearms, leading to their increasingly widespread adoption as the basis of all infantry formations.
The Duke is also thought to have lied about his whereabouts when the Palace at Versailles was stormed in the early hours of the morning on the 6th of October, having stated he was at the General Assembly in Paris, yet several witnesses ( including the Marquise de la Tour du Pin ) saw him lead the bloodthirsty mob to a staircase leading to the Queen's bedroom, protected by Swiss Guards.
Most Swiss newspapers and magazines follow house style that, in the case of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland's leading daily paper, diverges substantially from the official rules.
He received his university degree in Paris and was employed by a leading Swiss newspaper as a music critic.
In an early and desperate show of resolve, the terrorists kill one of the hostages, leading the Swiss government to seek help from Rainbow.
The Swiss club, lead by coach Hitzfeld and its stars Sutter and Sforza, shocked " Marakana " with Közle ’ s leading score, while Binić, who returned to Red Star in the summer ( after two years abroad ), managed to even the score.
Afterwards, the party's fortunes started to decline as many leading figures left the party in the course of internal disputes, mainly for the more mainstream Swiss People's Party.
In the 1830s, however, the Swiss military was reorganized, leading to the formation of brass bands that used modern instruments.
A Swiss band, Celtic Frost, mostly known for their progression of style and Avant-garde take on extreme music started in the early 80's as Hellhammer and soon became a leading heavy metal band in Switzerland.
Emerging in the early 90's, the band Gotthard evolved to become the leading Swiss rock group and one of the most acclaimed bands in Europe.
The Hungarians had just come off a good run of results in the previous year, but had been beaten, convincingly, by the Swiss in the days leading up to the Games ; Max Abegglen, who had only been playing international football for two years, scoring his 7th international goal that day for the Swiss.
In Mexico, sweetened condensed milk is one of the main ingredients of the cold cake dessert ( The leading brand is " La Lechera ", the local version of Swiss Milch Mädchen by Nestlé ), combined with evaporated milk, Marie biscuits, lemon juice, and tropical fruit.
SBC remained among the Swiss government's leading underwriters of debt in the post-war years.
" One report claims " Working-class Iranian lamented clerical wealth in the face of their own poverty ," and " stories about Swiss bank accounts of leading clerics circulated on Tehran's rumor mill.

Swiss and into
There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.
The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.
* 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
" By about 15: 00 the Swiss had been pushed out of the village into the marshes beyond.
On some occasions, simple weapons employed in an unorthodox fashion have proven advantageous, as with the Swiss pikemen who gained many victories through their ability to transform a traditionally defensive weapon into an offensive one.
The airport itself is split into two architecturally independent sectors, one half serving the French side and the other half serving the Swiss side ; prior to Schengen there was a customs point at the middle of the airport so that people could " emigrate " to the other side of the airport.
Albrecht von Haller, a Swiss physician and physiologist made note in his 1747 book on physiology that the " water " in the brain was secreted into the ventricles and absorbed in the veins, and when secreted in excess, could lead to hydrocephalus.
Others, such as Swiss native Sophie Täuber, would remain in Zurich into the 1920s.
In the Swiss Army, mounted dragoons existed until the early 1970s, when they were converted into Armoured Grenadiers units.
The Foreign Legion was initially divided into " national battalions " ( Swiss, Poles, Germans ...).
High German in this broader sense can be subdivided into Upper German ( Oberdeutsch, this includes the Austrian and Swiss German dialects ), Central German ( Mitteldeutsch, this includes Luxembourgish, which is now a standardized language ), and High Franconian which is a transitional dialect between the two.
Because the unified Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure ( set to enter into force in 2011 ) does not provide for jury trials or lay judges, however, they are likely to be abolished in the near future.
147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant ' Angelo.
Bismarck proposed that Prussia should exploit Austria's weakness to move her frontiers " as far south as Lake Constance " on the Swiss border ; instead Prussia mobilised troops in the Rhineland to deter further French advances into Venetia.
Schwartz was able to convince Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Swiss diplomatic couriers to smuggle American intelligence information into these territories and establish contact with elements antagonistic to the Nazis and their collaborators.
Only after the victory of King Otto I over the Magyars in 955 in the Battle of Lechfeld, were the Swiss territories reintegrated into the empire.
They proposed a new Constitution for the Swiss Confederation which would draw the several cantons into a closer relationship.
As of 2009, there are a large number of disputes between Switzerland and Libya, and some Swiss politicians want to stop entry of Libyan nationals into Switzerland.
* 1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
The parties are divided into two groups, the Swiss (" on the one part ") and the EU and its member states (" on the other part ").
A Multi-tool is a hand tool that incorporates several tools into a single, portable device ; the Swiss army knife represents one of the earliest examples.
The turbocharger was invented by Swiss engineer Alfred Büchi ( 1879-1959 ), the head of diesel engine research at Gebruder Sulzer engine manufacturing company in Winterhur, who received a patent in 1905 for using a compressor driven by exhaust gasses to force air into a diesel engine to increase power output but it took another 20 years for the idea to come to fruition.
* September 12 – One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.
* April 27 – Battle of Bicocca: French and Swiss forces under Odet de Lautrec are defeated by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Milan, and are forced to withdraw into Venetian territory.

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