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The larger the old confederation had become more a problem with soldiers dressed in a manner incompatible who barely able to recognize their allies on the battlefield. The descriptions of the battle Laupen (1339), the white stripes on the cross are set for the first time as a sign joint recognition of Confederate soldiers.  

The White Stripes have been established a soldier of the chest, back, shoulders, arms, legs, helmets and weapons. In the middle of the age of 15, white cross was incorporated under the flags of the Member States of the Confederation. Originally a cross has reached the edge of the banner also in Switzerland, as in the Scandinavian flags.

 

Tricolor flag of the Swiss Republiconly a brief episode in the history ofSome believe that Switzerland was the first modern democracy in history. It's only half the truth, reality. While people in some towns and cities can actually participate in the political process, most of the inhabitants of Switzerland had no political rights at all to the revolution in 1798 the Swiss eliminate the old structure and is replaced by a democratic centralist model according to the French Revolution (1789).

 Corresponding to the revolutionary fashion, Helvetic Republic also had the tricolor flag in three colors:Green (the color of nature, symbolizing freedom and / or revolution), a hat with little freedomThe red color in many of the traditional coat of arms Swiss cantonsYellow: the traditional colorTricolor on the Swiss Republic of Switzerland from 1798 to 1715) from the cover of freedomHelvetic Tricolor1798-1815Extreme centralism, but not proven in Switzerland and in 1803 years he returned to Switzerland in the system of federalism maintaining the revolutionary principles of liberty, equality and solidarity. 

 Six new members of the cantons (former territories without political rights) were granted to the new confederation. In 1815 three cantons returned to Switzerland, which were annexed by France (Napoleon!) after 1798. Green Revolution from 1798 is on the back of the cantons in 1803 (MS), St Gallen, Thurgau, Vaud and Neuchâtel (member 1815):"Swiss cross" as a national symbolAfter the French military dictator Napoleon was defeated by European powers in 1815, conservative politicians in Switzerland tried to restore the old political institutions. 

Helvetic Tricolor was abandoned and William Tell, and then made a revolutionary hero, was allowed to seal Switzerland and replaced by a white cross on red of Switzerland.In 1815, several battalions of Swiss army adopted a flag with the Swiss cross, instead of the traditional regional flag. Not everyone in Switzerland was happy with that, however. 

The White Stripes on their uniforms were replaced with old red armbands with a white cross. These bands are used before the start of World War I (1914).Swiss Flag: White cross on red backgroundThe Swiss flagAfter the French Revolution in July 1830, the liberal politicians in Switzerland rallied and demanded more centralist institutions.