MORGARTEN, a mountain slope in Switzerland, near Lake Egeri, on the borders of the cantons of Schwyz and Zug, memorable as the field of the earliest victory of the Swiss in their struggle for independence. This happened on the 15th of November 1315, when an Austrian army of 20,000 men, being entangled between the mountains and the lake, were totally defeated by 1300 Swiss mountaineers, totally unaccustomed to war. A chapel was erected on the battlefield, in which service is performed annually on the anniversary of the battle.