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A 200-year old battle unites and divides the Swiss

This content was published on Nov 26, 2012 Of the 9,000 or so Swiss who took part in the campaign – enrolled under Switzerland’s treaty obligations with France – about 400 returned to tell the tale. It was a campaign with few pitched battles; many of those who died perished from cold, hunger and disease and in Russian guerrilla attacks. But the three-day…