The Evil Swiss Invade

[moot]

Seriously.

[Viking]

Still... lol

[Mace2004]

Originally posted by Viking
Highly unlikely as the Knight Templar took a vow of chastity like other men of the cloth Switzerland is however the last bastion of the Holy Roman Empire, the last Roman Emperor abdicating in the early 1800’s after a military defeat to France.

The Pope might have something to say about that.

[moot]

[Dinger]

bah.  The Templars were suppressed at the beginning of the 14th century. They weren't too literate either. But they were predominantly french-speaking, if they could speak any language.
I mean, sidewinders up the tailpipe, sure that was going on in all kinds of monastic orders. The King of France bringing it up? Gee, wouldn't that be because the Templars ran his accounts? No surprise there: states in trouble always run up their bankers on charges, guilty or not.

[LePaul]

All that training to be neutral

[moot]

Yes, but Kundalini, kiss on the ass, was that made up?

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Airscrew
I used to drink Swiss Miss Hot chocolate

Bet you can't say Swiss Miss without smiling.


ack-ack

[texasmom]

Originally posted by Airscrew
ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.
 
According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.

 

I did something similar at a land-nav course a million years ago. Went so dang far in the wrong direction that I ended up in the next state. Thankfully I was chased by a giant turkey (which I didn't realize were so big or agressive until that day) chased me back in the right direction.

[Dinger]

Dude, Swiss Miss is what we drank on boy scout campouts. You know, the ones where Mister Henkins would regale us all with stories about his service in the Artillery in the Korean War. Then we'd go to bed, and the stories would continue, about the 'Fire Missions" he'd execute with the smallest boy in the troop, who would inevitably have to bunk with him. I mean, the guy was so fulla crop, the other scoutmasters shoulda seen it: he had a passion for small-bore tubes, yet pretended to be a red leg. Sheesh. It took them ten years after I left for them to ban him.

But I digress. Hop hop, and all that schwiiz.

[eskimo2]

Yup, The Swiss Army is frightening:

[Xargos]

http://www.templarhistory.com/switzerland.html


1. The founding of the embryonic Switzerland conforms exactly to the period when the Templars were being persecuted in France.

2. Switzerland is just to the east of France and would have been particularly easy for fleeing Templar brothers from the whole region of France to get to.

3. In the history of the first Swiss Cantons there are tales of white coated knights mysteriously appearing and helping the locals to gain their independence against foreign domination.

4. The Templars were big in banking, farming and engineering (of an early type). These same aspects can be seen as inimical to the commencement and gradual evolution of the separate states that would eventually be Switzerland.

5. Even the Swiss don't really know the ins and outs of their earliest history (or suggest that they don't.) They are famous for being secretive and we don't have to tell interested readers that this is something they share absolutely with the Templars.

6. The famous Templar Cross is incorporated into the flags of many of the Swiss Cantons. As are other emblems, such as keys and lambs, that were particularly important to the Knights Templar.

7. The Swiss were and are famous for their religious tolerance - and so were the Templars.

[DiabloTX]

LOL mace, good one.

I think Sir Ulrich was from Liechtenstein.

Funny chap that guy, and pretty damned good at tourneys.

He ended up hooking up with some hot princess, ummm, Jocelyn was her name IIRC.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by eskimo2
Yup, The Swiss Army is frightening:

They must be.

ANYONE with enough nads to go out dressed like that in public has GOT to be badass

[Shuckins]

At the time the fledgling Swiss cantons won their independence from Burgundian control, they were THE premiere fighting force in Europe....employing as combined arms a massed pike formation and missile fire to devastate the knighted chivalry that attempted to subjugate them.

In one battle, the name of which slips my mind at the moment, Swiss pike men bloodily repelled an attack by mounted, armored Burgundian knights, killing 400 horses in the first charge.

So well disciplined were the Swiss, and so well conditioned, they could move across the countryside with nearly the speed of the mounted knights.  In battle, they employed drums and trumpets to signal massed and timed movements to catch their enemies off guard.

After winning their independence, the Swiss earned great wealth, as did the Landsknechts of Germany, by provided the finest mercenary forces in Europe.

So faithfully did the serve the Pope in his wars, that they were granted the permanent honor of providing his personal guards at the Vatican.

The young soldier in the foppish finery is wearing the same type of uniform the Swiss guards at the Vatican have always worn.

Regards, Shuckins