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The Chiasserzug was a Swiss campaign in the Italian Wars . It was an attempt by a federal contingent of mercenaries to enter the papal service (officially or, according to the Swiss understanding, purely defensive, as an extended bodyguard or protection force for the Papal States). This service took place within the framework of a federal-papal alliance that had been negotiated by Cardinal Matthäus Schiner and, in retrospect, it was disputed whether this had already been ratified. The Swiss mercenaries met in Martigny, VD, in early September 1510. Then the Swiss tried to reach the Papal States via the great St. Bernhard and Savoy. Rejected by the Savoy, they marched through the Valais into Ticino and towards Bellenz . Savoy had claimed that the French had a federal Would see the train through Savoy as a casus belli . The French crown suspected, with good reason, that the Pope also intended to use the Swiss offensively against France's allies or possessions in Italy, e.g. against d'Este Ferrara , Milan or Genoa. Therefore, they tried to prevent the Confederates from passing through the French-controlled Duchy of Milan. The Swiss forced the march through in Ponte Tresa and marched on Varese, but due to successful French. They soon ran out of provisions during economic warfare. They then left Varese and moved to Chiasso, from where they were called back to the Swiss Confederation by the Diet in mid-September. This recall was preceded by serious ideas from the emperor and from Milanese ambassadors who, on the basis of letters received, were able to credibly demonstrate that the Pope was actually taking military action against French. Interests planned.
These letters were presumably received by the French commandant at Lauis from three federal messengers . The most incriminating (from a French point of view) letters were probably in the Schwyzer's box, at best more in that of the Freiburg resident, both of which then both found death in French captivity. A third messenger, from Bern, got away with his life. This incident triggered the next Swiss campaign in the Alps , the cold winter campaign .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ildephons Fuchs: The Milanese campaigns of the Swiss . Huber & Co., St. Gallen 1810, p. 175 ( archive.org ).
- ^ Ildephons Fuchs: the Milanese campaigns of the Swiss . Huber & Co., St. Gallen 1810, p. 191-193 .