Berne

A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer · 1881 · p. 2

The sovereign canton of Switzerland; joined the Swi League in 1352; the town of Berne was made a free city by the emperor Frederick, May, 1218; it succe fully resisted Rudolph of Hapsburg, 1288. It surrendered to the French under Gen. Brune, April 12, 1798; the town was made capital of Switzerland in 1848.