Back Franzoseneinfall (Schweiz) ALS الغزو الفرنسي لسويسرا Arabic Franzoseneinfall (Schweiz) German Invasión francesa de Suiza Spanish Invasions françaises de la Suisse en 1792 et 1798 French הפלישה הצרפתית לשווייץ HE フランスのスイス侵攻 (1798年) Japanese Французское вторжение в Швейцарию Russian Французьке вторгнення у Швейцарію Ukrainian Pháp xâm lược Thụy Sĩ Vietnamese
| French invasion of Switzerland | |||||||
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| Part of the French Revolutionary Wars | |||||||
.jpg) Entry of the French into Bern on 15 March 1798. Engraving by Abraham Girardet, c. 1798-1803 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 France |
 Switzerland | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Guillaume Brune Balthazar Alexis Henri Schauenburg Philippe Romain Ménard |
Karl Ludwig von Erlach X Alois von Reding | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| At least 35,000[1] |
20,000 (Bern) 10,000 (Schwyz, Nidwalden and Uri)[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | 700 (Bern) | ||||||
The French invasion of Switzerland (German: Franzoseneinfall) occurred from January to May 1798 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The independent Old Swiss Confederacy collapsed from the invasion and simultaneous internal revolts called the "Helvetic Revolution". The Swiss ancien régime institutions were abolished and replaced by the centralised Helvetic Republic, one of the sister republics of the French First Republic.