Stüssi actively participates in the early hostilities…

Stüssi actively participates in the early hostilities but in July is slain in battle at Sankt Jakob an der Sihl, just outside Zürich.

Zurich’s forces retreat; the diet issues a conciliatory order that Austria rejects, causing Zurich to break with Austria.

The Swiss Confederacy aids Schwyz, besieging Zurich with twenty thousand troops.

French King Charles VII, hoping to gain control of Basel, responds to Frederick’s request for aid by dispatching forty thousand soldiers.