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William Tell, Swiss Folk Hero

William Tell shooting an apple off the head of his own child. William Tell is a Swiss folk hero of Switzerland. According to legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve. Tell's defiance and tyrannicide marked the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy, of which Tell is considered the founding father. The first written records of the legend date to the latter part of the 15th century. Illustration from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, 1554. Colorized.
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William Tell, Swiss Folk Hero
William Tell shooting an apple off the head of his own child. William Tell is a Swiss folk hero of Switzerland. According to legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve. Tell's defiance and tyrannicide marked the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy, of which Tell is considered the founding father. The first written records of the legend date to the latter part of the 15th century. Illustration from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, 1554. Colorized.
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