Fife-and-drum corps of Swiss mercenary foot soldiers also used drums.

In 1506 he officially founded the Swiss Guard to provide a constant corps of soldiers to protect the Pope.

The structure of the Swiss militia system stipulates that the soldiers keep their own personal equipment, including all personally assigned weapons, at home ( until 2007 this also included ammo ).

It was composed of 50 to 55 elite Swiss soldiers under contract for 6 to 12 months.

Swiss soldiers are required to salute any higher ranking military personnel whenever they encounter them.

After several tests, the product was perfected and a group of Swiss brewers launched Cenovis ; the product was an immediate success and the famous spread was so good that from 1955 it was included in the rations for Swiss soldiers ...

German soldiers known as Landsknechts later adopted Swiss methods of pike handling.

Swiss Guards or Schweizergarde are the Swiss soldiers who have served as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century.

The use of Swiss soldiers as Royal guards and as the Pontifical guard stems from the reputation of Swiss mercenaries at the time of their formation.

Their officers were all Swiss and their rate of pay substantially higher than that of the regular French soldiers.

Half the soldiers had to be Swiss, while the other half could be made up of Germans and Hungarians.

While both Michelangelo and a painting of the Swiss Guard bearing Pope Julius II on a litter ( by Raphael ) are often cited as inspiration for the Swiss Guard uniform, the actual uniforms worn by those soldiers are of the style which appears by today's standards as a large skirt, a common style in uniforms during the Renaissance.

The Battle of Morgarten occurred on November 15, 1315, when a Swiss Confederation force of 1, 500 infantry archers ambushed a group of Austrian soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire near the Morgarten Pass.

The Duke had 12, 000 foot soldiers supported by an assortment of German and Swiss infantry and 4, 000 cavalry, 2, 000 of whom were Spanish.

It was originally coined by Peter von Hagenbach and intended to indicate soldiers of the lowlands of the Holy Roman Empire as opposed to the Swiss mercenaries.

The Landsknechte, although rather conservative in their usage of weapons, and always containing a large majority of pikemen, inclined more to the tactical employment of firearms than the Swiss were because Landsknechts relied less on the precipitous rush to close combat and, as Imperial soldiers, they also often fought in formations mixed with Spaniards during the reign of King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. These Spaniards made a good widespread use of the arquebus and later, of the musket.

In 1487, at Calliano, the Venetians successfully met and acquitted themselves against the German landsknechte and the Swiss infantry, who then were the best soldiers in Europe.

The term " Swiss Army knife " was coined by US soldiers after World War II due to the difficulty they had in pronouncing the German name.

During the late 1880s, the Swiss Army decided to purchase a new folding pocket knife for their soldiers.

According to Carl Elsener, head of Victorinox in 2009, U. S. soldiers bought Swiss Army knives in huge numbers at PX stores on military bases following the conclusion of the Second World War.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

The Swiss commanders wired the infrastructure leading into the country, and threatening to destroy bridges, railway tunnels and passes in the event of a Nazi invasion, and then they retreated to the heart of the mountain peaks where conditions were harsher and a military invasion would involve difficult and protracted battles.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

The small Swiss garrison in the village, shaken by the sudden onslaught and unsupported by the battalions to their rear, were soon compelled back towards the village of Taviers.

" Major-General Murray ," recalled one eye witness, " … seeing him fall, marched up in all haste with two Swiss battalions to save him and stop the enemy who were hewing all down in their way.

Basel, had a strategic location, good relations with Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and control of the corn imports from Alsace, whereas the Swiss lands were becoming overpopulated and had few resources.

In there were 898 live births to Swiss citizens and 621 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 1, 732 deaths of Swiss citizens and 175 non-Swiss citizen deaths.

There were 207 Swiss men and 271 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.

The Bernoulli numbers were discovered around the same time by the Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli, after whom they are named, and independently by Japanese mathematician Seki Kōwa.

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

In the Swiss Army, mounted dragoons existed until the early 1970s, when they were converted into Armoured Grenadiers units.

On the night of 10 August 1792, insurgents and popular militias, supported by the revolutionary Paris Commune, assailed the Tuileries Palace and massacred the Swiss Guards who were assigned for the protection of the king.

Plans to go to the Swiss Alps were mooted.

There were 56, 091 Swiss women ( 29. 3 %) and 43, 735 ( 22. 9 %) non-Swiss women.

In there were 1, 147 live births to Swiss citizens and 893 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 1, 114 deaths of Swiss citizens and 274 non-Swiss citizen deaths.

The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, the 1837 English translation of the 1833 Swiss publication Histoire de M. Vieux Bois by Swiss caricaturist Rodolphe Töpffer, is the oldest recognized American example of comics used to this end.

His merits were recognized by Suvorov, whom he accompanied in the Italian and Swiss campaign of 1799, winning particular distinction by the capture of the town of Brescia.

" He was suspected of having received important sums of money in 1993 and 1994 for his role as an intermediary in this contract, and has recognized having received US $ 1, 8 million ( 13 million Francs ) from the Brenco on a Swiss bank account — although he denied any participation to an arms deal.

Romansh has been recognized as one of four " national languages " by the Swiss Federal Constitution since 1938.

Although lichens had been recognized as organisms for quite some time, it was not until 1867, when Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener proposed his dual theory of lichens, that the true nature of the lichen association began to emerge.

However, the oldest recognized reference to " Gaufres de Bruxelles " ( Brussels Waffles ) by name is attributed from 1842 / 43 to Florian Dacher, a Swiss baker in Ghent, Belgium, who had previously worked under pastry chefs in central Brussels.

Also, when the Old Swiss Confederacy gained its formal independence from the Empire in 1648 ( it had been de facto independent since 1499 ), the independence of the Imperial Cities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Solothurn, and Zürich was formally recognized.

The Swiss Ice Hockey Association ( SIHA ) (, ) is the governing body of ice hockey in Switzerland, as recognized by the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ).

In Switzerland, the school is the only institute of hospitality management of Haute Ecole Spécialisée (" Haute Ecole Spécialisée ", or University of Applied Sciences ) level offering advanced programmes which are recognized by the Swiss government.

Biel was considered an associate of the Swiss Confederacy during the 15th century, and after its participation in the Burgundy Wars even came to be recognized as a full member by 1494.

The track was recognized and remixed by Swiss trance producer Moogwai in 2002.

Omega SA (; ) is a Swiss luxury watchmaker based in Biel / Bienne, Switzerland and is one of the most well-known and recognized watches in the world.

The Physicists () ( written 1961, performed 1962, and published 1962, Verlags AG " Die Arche ", Zürich, Switzerland ) is a satiric drama often recognized as the most impressive yet most easily understood work of the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

While the sheer bravery or foolhardiness on the Swiss side was recognized by contemporaries, it was only in the 19th century, after the collapse of the Napoleonic Helvetic Republic, that the battle came to be stylized as a heroic and selfless rescue of the Swiss Confederacy from a French invasion.

The appearance standard for United Kennel Club registered dogs is very similar to but not exactly the same as for other separate breed lines such as the AWSA-registered White Shepherd or the FCI internationally recognized Berger Blanc Suisse ( White Swiss Shepherd Dog ).

Hanna, along with Swiss antiquity traders, paid Koutoulakis a sum rumoured to be between $ 3 million to $ 10 million, recovered the manuscript and introduced it to experts who recognized its significance.

Charles did not, however, help Sigismund against the Swiss, and so Sigismund bought back the territories in 1474 and concluded a peace treaty with the Confederacy, the Ewige Richtung, although the emperor never recognized it.

But the events of the war had strengthened the pro-confederate party in the city council, and the Swiss recognized the city's strategic position as a bridgehead on the Rhine ( like Schaffhausen, too ).

It is one of the largest holiday resort and ski areas in the Swiss Alps, is recognized as one of the premiere " off-piste " locations in the world.

The battle turned into a decisive defeat for Maximilian, and concluded the Swabian War between the Swiss and the Swabian League: it amounted to de-facto independence of Switzerland from the Holy Roman Empire, acknowledged by Maximilian in the Treaty of Basel on 22 September ( the independence was however not formally recognized until the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 ).