Illustration of the Battle of Laupen (1339) between Swiss forces and an army of the Dukes of Savoy. It still shows the old german red flag with a white cross upon it. The confederate forces are on the right. The Bernese victory at the Battle of Laupen helped bring Bern into the Swiss Confederation.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Diebold_Schilling_the_Elder" class="extiw" title="w:en:Diebold Schilling the Elder"><span title="Swiss chronicler">Diebold Schilling the Elder</span></a>
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The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Spiezer_Chronik" title="Category:Spiezer Chronik">Spiez Chronicle</a> of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Diebold_Schilling_the_Elder" title="Category:Diebold Schilling the Elder">Diebold Schilling the Elder</a>, around <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=1484&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="1484 (page does not exist)">1484</a>; Image from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.rbvex.it/svizzeri.html">http://www.rbvex.it/svizzeri.html</a>; 2nd version from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwi/images/zwi1.jpg">http://www.ngw.nl/int/zwi/images/zwi1.jpg</a>