The murder of Albrecht Gessler by William Tell. Albrecht Gessler, aka Hermann. Legendary 14th-century Habsburg bailiff whose brutal rule led to the William Tell rebellion and the independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy. William Tell. Folk hero of Switzerland. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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