General Suworoff on the Gotthard (Contemporary Presentation)
In his impressive witness account of the turbulent times from 1798 to 1803 in the canton of Uri, we can Karl Franz Lusser the terrible times to get close. Since it is clear from the position of the "old order" reports and polemics, I can easily imagine how even today's societies, where an order is imposed from the outside, never to rest and how the lives of the inhabitants of terror, fear, hunger , poverty, uncertainty and uncertainty is characterized. (Afghanistan seems to me a recent example again is significant in the sense)
is the beginning of the first chapter
(forerunners of the Revolution of 1789 to 1798)
"The seed, the after philosophers and God-forgotten religious scoffers spread so bold and so richly had walked in France more than ample to weed and always wore abundant fruit, so much so that it ghörte for good tone for the fine education, Christianity, and particularly to mock the Catholic religion and its institutions and practices and to make ridiculous, and the priests of the religion to despise and decry their duties as arrogance, as a disturbance of human happiness ........"
Twice Lussier describes episodes in which Isenthal was affected by the war. In the end it seemed to the French generals apparently more appropriate to agree to an "honorable capitulation," as unnecessary to waste resources on this side show. And so the Isenthal in memory of those days can feel einwenig as "heroes."
follow here are the two descriptions:
Chapter Nine
the Peasants' War Start: expulsion of the French from Uri (1799)
(pages 112 and 113)
".... most fell in the night or early in the morning the farmers in hands who are prisoners and the wounded brought to the monastery. Among the former was also Grenadier Captain Dupin, whom some wanted by the first successful issue has become great and wuthentbrannte Schreier, with other prisoners cut down immediately, but the earnest intercession of the Lord Chief Magistrate Jost Müller, joined several human-minded fellow, succeeded in the infamy of and prevent the nuns cared for these unfortunates with genuine Christian love. Several severely wounded French inspired because of their mind after they moved through the participation of the soul-zealous pastor Imhof, from whose hand still receive the holy sacraments - a boon to them in the revolutionized homes would be very difficulty to become part of.
Immediately after the battle of the bridge to Seedorf of the path of most knowledgeable man Bürglen, Franz Arnold, Emmet Francis was called, rushed into the Isenthal; of sweat dripping, he came in the middle of the night in Birki, the nearest to home this valley of throwing the still bloody sword on the table, told briefly what had happened and demanded that the hill would be filled quickly in the chapel Frutt to the French, who could look this way back, denying that. This was done in the utmost haste, and really hard the day dawned, it appeared a troop of French, with shots and stones they were in this dangerous bottleneck and receive the most part captured. Two of them tried to escape through rocky hillsides, where few natives would have dared to climb, so great was her dread of the embittered farmers, but only one managed to reach the Isleten, the other fell to death. A captured officer then went on that same morning, farmers accompanied the whole forest down, causing the hidden and now here, now there was one out of the thicket, but some, either because they are not the calling voice heard or unrecognized, or expected no quarter came, until the third or fourth, even a sergeant until the fifth day, driven by hunger, pale and distorted from the hiding places. Some of these stragglers were already the first evening at the white house near he collected Reuss bridge to Attinghausen again, they were the next morning early attacked by some farmers, thrown and made in Ruberst prisoners, and they could only with difficulty by the human-minded people from savage slaughter be saved. They were led away to the other ankh Seedorf, from where it all together the following day were taken to Bürglen and imprisoned in the old tower near the Tellscapelle ....."
CHAPTER
Uri's reconquest by the French (1799)
(page 131)
"...... Had now accepted the men of their quiet little valley Isenthal manfully and several attacks which Vaud against the construction of Bärki undertook rejected bloody. Finally Imholz minister was negotiating on behalf of the brave valley stock and received a very honorable capitulation, according to which they were allowed to keep their arms .........."
Excerpt from
suffering and fate of Uri during the memorable revolution period, from the overthrow of the old constitution in 1798 until its restoration in 1803
In memory written for his fellow citizens by Dr. F. Lussier (Lussier Karl Franz)
member of several learned societies, Altdorf, printed and published by Franz Xaver Z'graggen 1845
facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1845 with preface and explanatory name-register. Published by the Uri cantonal library. Raeburn Verlag Luzern and Stuttgart.
separate pressure of 11/12. Annual gift of Canton Uri Library 1964/65. Editors: Hans Schuler, the state archivist, Uri
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