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On 19 July , Imperial troops marching on Dorneck castle are sighted, and Solothurn calls Berne for help. Berne sent 5000 troops, Zurich 400, and smaller contingents from Uri , Unterwalden and Zug also started to move to Dornach. On 20 July 600 troops left Lucerne . The first attacks on July 22 are executed by the troops of Berne, Zurich and Solothurn, but they are beaten back. Only with the arrival of the reinforcements from Lucerne and Zug, which suddenly break out of the woods "with horns and shouting" are the Imperial troops turned to flight, after several hours' fighting. The commander of the Imperial troops, Heinrich Von Fürstenberg , was killed at the early stages of fighting. When Maximilian in Überlingen heard about the lost battle, he was reportedly devastated by the news. The battle of Dornach was the last armed conflict between the Swiss and the Holy Roman Empire . |