SEMPACH  , a small See also:

• TOWN

town in the Swiss See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton of See also:

• LUCERNE
• LUCERNE (Ger. Luzern; Ital. Lucerne)
• LUCERNE, LAKE OF
• LUCERNE, PURPLE MEDICK

Lucerne, built above the eastern See also:

• SHORE

shore of the See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake of the same name, and about 1 z m. by road See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of the Sempach railway station (9 M . N.W. of Lucerne) on the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• LINE

line between Lucerne and Olten . In 1900 it had 2592 inhabitants, See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German-speaking and Romanists . It has retained some traces of its See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower, and reached by a See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge over the old See also:

• MOAT

moat . About See also:

• HALF

half an See also:

• HOUR

hour distant to the north-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Sempach (9th See also:

• JULY

July 1386), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader, See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke See also:

• LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

Leopold, lost his See also:

• LIFE

life . The legendary See also:

• DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed of See also:

• ARNOLD
• ARNOLD, BENEDICT (1741-1801)
• ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714)
• ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)
• ARNOLD, SAMUEL (1740--18o2)
• ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832-1904)
• ARNOLD, THOMAS (1745-1842)

Arnold of See also:

• WINKELRIED, ARNOLD VON

Winkelried (q.v.) is associated with this victory . The spot is now marked by an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient and picturesque Battle See also:

• CHAPEL

Chapel (restored in 1886) and by a See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to Winkelried . Some See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles north of Sempach is the See also:

• QUAINT (O. Fr. cointe, from Lat. cognitus, known, probably influenced by association with Lat. corn plus, neat)

quaint See also:

• VILLAGE

village of See also:

• MUNSTER
• MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN (1489-1552)

Munster or Beromunster (973 inhabitants in 1900), with a collegiate See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church founded in the loth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and dating, in parts, from the 1 nth and 12th centuries (See also:

• FINE

fine 17th-century See also:

• CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir stalls and See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar frontals), the See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter of See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular canons now consisting of invalided priests of the canton of Lucerne: it was in Beromunster that the first dated See also:

• BOOK

book was printed (1470) in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, by care of the canons, while thence came Gering who introduced See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing into See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . See Th. von Liebenau . See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Schlacht bei Sempach (Lucerne, 1886) . (W . A .

B .