page_title: Second War of Kappel
section_title: Battle of Kappel
hierarchical_section_title: Second War of Kappel / Battle of Kappel
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Denkmal für Ulrich Zwingli in Kappel am Albis, Schweiz
context_page_description: The Second War of Kappel was an armed conflict in 1531 between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland.
context_section_description: On 11 October 1531 a force of approximately 7,000 soldiers from the five Catholic cantons met an army of only 2,000 men from Zürich at the Battle of Kappel.  Zürich's army was unsupported by the other Protestant cantons and was led by Zwingli while the combined Catholic army was led by Hans Jauch of the Canton of Uri. The main Zürich force arrived at the battlefield in scattered groups and exhausted from a forced march. The Catholic forces attacked and after a brief resistance, the Protestant army broke around 4 in the afternoon. About 500 Protestants were killed in the battle and while fleeing. Among the dead were Zwingli and twenty-four other pastors. Zwingli's body was taken by the victorious Catholic army and burned for heresy.
  After the defeat, the forces of Zürich regrouped and attempted to occupy the Zugerberg, and some of them camped on the Gubel hill near Menzingen.
caption: Zwingli memorial at Kappel
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