# The Swiss Republic

Author: Winchester, Boyd, 1836-1923

Genre: Category: History - European

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69971

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Swiss+Republic+Winchester&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The first inhabitants of Switzerland, according to tradition, were fugitives from Italy, who had been driven by the Gauls from the country where now flourish the cities of Genoa and Florence, and who, 600 B.C., found an asylum in the recesses and wilderness of the valleys above which the Rhine has its source. They were known as the Rhetians, from the name of their hero Rhetus; hence the country about the source of the Rhine, embracing the Grisons, is even now called by some, Rhetia. The Canton of Schwyz claims to have been peopled by the Cimbrians, who, leaving their original habitations in Sweden, Norway, and Friesland, conquered their way over the Rhine to the cities of the Gauls, in th...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swiss-republic-69971/chapters/1/index.md)