The Netherlands, with their wealth, had been already appropriated, and their freedom crushed.

Another land of liberty remained; physically, the reverse of Holland, but stamped with the same courageous nationality, the same ardent love of human rights.

Switzerland was to be conquered.

Her eternal battlements of ice and granite were to constitute the great bulwark of his realm.

The world knows well the result of the struggle between the lord of so many duchies and earldoms, and the Alpine mountaineers.