Use of a white cross as a mark of identification of the combined troops of the
Old Swiss Confederacy is first attested in the
Battle of Laupen (1339), where it was sewn on combatants' clothing as two stripes of textile, contrasting with the red
St. George's cross
of Habsburg Austria, and with the
St. Andrew's cross
used by Burgundy and
Maximilian I.
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Use of the white cross as a military ensign (attached to the cantonal
flags in the form of strips of linen) has been used in the
Old Swiss Confederacy since the 14th century, but the modern design of a white cross suspended in a square red field was introduced only during the
Napoleonic period,
first used in 1800 during the
Hundred Days by general
Niklaus Franz von Bachmann, and was introduced as official
national flag in
1889.
Swiss mercenaries brought home funds from their contracts that helped Swiss banks begin.
Banking began in the eighteenth century by way of the riches of merchants.
Wegelin & Co.,
established in 1741, was the oldest bank in Switzerland
until it restructured into a new legal entity in 2013.
Hentsch & Cie and
Lombard Odier were both founded in
1796 in Geneva as private banks, and
Pictet and Cie was established in 1805 as a merchant bank.
Hentsch & Cie was a founding member of the Swiss National bank during
1852.
The Swiss banks in
Geneva and
Zurich have served as safe havens for the wealth of
dictators and
despots,
mobsters and
arms dealers,
corrupt officials and
tax cheats of all kinds.
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