enemies. Charles escaped to Morges, and then to Pontarlier, where he stayed for months, reportedly in a deep depression. He later returned to the battlefield at the Battle of Nancy, where he was killed. Pockmarks from the Burgundian cannon can still be seen in the defensive towers of Morat. Citation Lord Byron in Canto III of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage has these words on the battle: 63 But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,-- Morat! the proud, the patriot field! where man May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain; Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, A bony heap, through ages to remain, Themselves their monument;--the Stygian coast Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost. 64 While Waterloo with Cannae's carnage vies, Morat and Marathon twin names shall stand; They were true Glory's stainless victories, Won by the unambitious heart and hand Of a proud, brotherly, and civic band, All unbought champions in no princely cause Of vice-entail'd Corruption; they no land Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause. See also Battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy References Further reading Winkler, Albert (2010). "The Battle of Murten: The Invasion of Charles the Bold and the Survival of the Swiss States," Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol.46, no. 1, pp. 8–34. External links Panorama of the Battle of Morat The panorama of the battle of Murten, official site Morat 1476 Morat 1476 Conflicts in 1476 Murten 15th century in the Old Swiss Confederacy 1470s in the Holy Roman Empire 1476 in Europe