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	William Tell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gessler seized Tell, who was well known as a marksman, and set him a challenge.
		Gessler acceded, and Tell cannily manoeuvred the boat close to the shore, then leapt to freedom, landing on a flat rock (the Tellsplatte) and simultaneously pushing the boat back into the stormy waters.
		As Gessler and his party walked along on a dark lane called Hohlegasse on their way to the castle, Tell leapt out, shot a bolt into the tyrant’s heart and melted back into the woods to return to Uri.
	www.allprodad.com /9tell.asp (376 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Wilhelm Tell
		Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian Vogt of Altdorf raised a pole in the village's central square with his hat on top and demanded that all the local townsfolk bow before it.
		When Gessler queried him about the purpose of the second bolt in his quiver, Tell answered that if he had ended up killing his son in that trial, he would have turned the crossbow on Gessler himself.
		Gessler became enraged at that comment, and had Tell bound and brought to his ship to be taken to his castle at Küssnacht.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Wilhelm_Tell (2147 words)

	Ten Great Events in History - Chapter III. Defense of Freedom in Alpine Passes (by James Johonnot)
		Gessler likewise determined that whoever should disobey the mandate should be accused of disaffection, and treated accordingly; a measure which promised both to discover the discontented, and furnish sufficient grounds for their punishment.
		Gessler, reflecting on the aspect of the people, and fearful that some plot was in progress, which his accidental shortness of provisions rendered more unfortunate, determined to rid his citadel of the object which might induce an attack.
		Gessler’s fear of Tell induced him at first to hesitate, but, the prayers of the soldiers becoming pressing, he told the prisoner that if he could take them safely through the storm he should be at once unbound.
	www.authorama.com /ten-great-events-in-history-4.html (6039 words)

	Crossbow-badguys
		Never one to forget any sort of humiliation, Gessler carries a grudge against Tell so strong, that he would drag his entire country into debt and sacrifice anyone, even those most close to him, just to catch the man who humiliated him.....well...quite a few times.
		Free of Gessler's hold he is now free to practice his own brand of tyranny.
		Gessler's first Captain of the Guard and Horst's superior is a no nonsense soldier.
	www.geocities.com /elinececile/Crossbow-Badguys.htm (1903 words)

	William Tell - SKYGAZE - Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
		William Tell is such a lover of freedom, and it is he on this day who scorns the hat placed on a pole by Hermann Gessler, the autocratic governor sent from Vienna.
		Gessler demands to know what has happened and is displeased with Friesshart's report.
		He demands respect for his hat, forces a marksman to shoot an apple from his son's head for failure to make obeisance to it, arrests him for the threat of the second arrow, and is assassinated by the escaped prisoner.
	www.skygaze.com /content/mysteries/WilliamTell.shtml (2132 words)

	William Tell :: Soccerphile
		To please his egomania, Gessler had a pole erected in the centre of the town of Altdorf, put his hat on top of it, and decreed that the poor locals must bow to his cap each time they walked past it – or else.
		Gessler promptly had him arrested, and cunningly decided that his punishment would be trial by archery - to have to shoot an apple of the top of his son Walter's head from a distance of 80 paces, or they would both be executed.
		He knew Gessler would soon mobilise the whole canton to hunt him down, so he went to the castle at Küssnacht and lay in wait under a bridge (with the one arrow he had left from the shooting trial).
	www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/euro2008/culture/william-tell.html (738 words)

	Hermann Gessler - Wikipedia
		Hermann Gessler, der »Reichsvogt in Schwyz und Uri«, ist ein Schweizer Mythos.
		Auf Heinrich folgte noch ein Heinrich und erst dann ein Hermann Gessler, Namensvetter der Legendenfigur.
		Die Gessler galten als stolze Leute, zierte doch ein Pfau mit gestellten Federn in Silber und Blau ihre Helme.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermann_Gessler (354 words)

	William Tell, Tax Rebel - Mises Institute
		Gessler was impressed and infuriated, but as Tell was turning away, a second arrow that he had hidden in his coat fell to the ground.
		Gessler acceded, and Tell cunningly maneuvered the boat close to the shore, saving Gessler from the storm, but then he leapt to freedom, landing on a flat rock (the Tellsplatte) and escaping into the surrounding forest.
		As Gessler and his party walked along the Hohlegasse on their way to the castle, William Tell leapt out and shot the tyrant straight through the heart.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.asp?control=1478 (1623 words)

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		Gessler also taxed bread, and biscuits, and jam, and buns, and lemonade, and, in fact, everything he could think of, till the people of Switzerland determined to complain.
		Gessler and his men, Tell in their midst, bound and unarmed, embarked early in the afternoon at Flüelen, which was the name of the harbour where the Governor's ship had been moored.
		Upon the deck Gessler was standing beside the helmsman, and gazing anxiously across the waters at the rocks that fringed the narrow entrance to the bay a few hundred yards to the east of Castle Küssnacht.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext05/8wttt10.txt (14381 words)

	Roadtrip Day 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Legend has it that a new bailiff, Hermann Gessler, was sent to the small town of Altdorf by the Hapsburg rulers (Austrian).
		The towns around Altdorf had already pledged to resist the Austrian rule, and when Gessler raised a pole in the town square upon which he placed his hat and ordered anyone who passed it to bow, it was the last straw.
		Gessler was infuriated by his answer and ordered that Tell be imprisoned in his fortress at Küssnacht.
	www.diveguy.net /switzerland/zug/0420/index.html (1732 words)

	William Tell : Famous : Biography : Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian bailiff of Altdorf raised a pole in the village's central square with his hat on top and demanded that all the local townsfolk bow before it.
		When Gessler queried him about the purpose of the second arrow in his quiver, Tell answered that if he had ended up killing his son in that trial, he would have turned the crossbow on the bailiff.
		On land, he went to Küssnacht, and when Gessler arrived, he shot him with a crossbow bolt.
	y2u.co.uk /Sub029_Famous/F_William_Tell.htm (1064 words)

	Kieren Hutchison - The Legend of William Tell
		According to the legend the tyrannical landvogt Hermann Gessler forced William Tell, who was known to be a skilled marksman, to shoot an apple from his son's head after neglecting or refusing to pay the required respect to the hat of the landvogt that had been placed on a pole in the central town square.
		Gessler asked about the second arrow Tell had prepared.
		The origin of the legend of Tell - a marksman forced to shoot an apple from the head of a loved one - can be found much earlier in the Nordic legend of Egill - whose hero was the Icelandic Skald Egill Skallagrimsson (about 900-985).
	www.kierenhutchison.de /E/Films/films1990/TELL/tell_reallegend.html (330 words)

	Hermann Gessler Cartoons
		Hermann Gessler cartoon 1 - catalog reference ksmn1714
		Related topics: william tell, son, arrow, apple, legend, music, overture, crossbow, worm, victim, altdorf, swiss, switzerland, hermann gessler, austria, wilhelm tell, archery, arrows, bolt,
		Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/H/Hermann_Gessler.asp (139 words)

	Hermann Gessler - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
		Hermann Gessler var den österrikiske fogde som i sagan om Wilhelm Tell styrde över 1300-talets Schweiz.
		Gessler såg att Tell hade ännu en pil på sig och frågade vad Tell skulle med den till.
		Tell kastades i fängelse, men flydde och lockade Gessler i en fälla vid Vierwaldstättersjön där han dödade honom med den andra pilen.
	sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermann_Gessler (138 words)

	An apple, an arrow, and Swiss freedom \| csmonitor.com
		The enraged Gessler ordered him arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the dungeon of his castle at Küssnacht.
		It was only a matter of time until he intercepted Gessler in a gully and dispatched the evil tyrant with that extra arrow.
		At Kussnacht are the ruins of Gessler's castle (Gesslerburg) and the sunken road (Hohle Gasse) between Kussnacht and Immensee where he died.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0324/p12s01-trgn.htm (1094 words)

	[No title]
		Gessler, we know, is but a younger son, His only wealth the knightly cloak he wears; He therefore views an honest man's good fortune With a malignant and a jealous eye.
		Now, as I live, I'd rather give my hand To Gessler's self, all despot though he be, Than to the Switzer who forgets his birth, And stoops to be the minion of a tyrant.
		Oh, trust me, Gessler will entomb him where He never more shall see the light of day; For, Tell once free, the tyrant well may dread The just revenge of one so deep incensed.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/6/7/8/6788/old/wtell10a.txt (18317 words)

	William Tell
		The story tells us that just at this time Gessler, the Austrian governor, who was a cruel tyrant, hung a cap on a high pole in the market-place in the village of Altorf, and forced everyone who passed to bow before it.
		Gessler offered to release him if he would shoot an apple from the head of his son.
		It is said that Tell shot the apple from his son's head but that Gessler still refused to release him.
	www.middle-ages.org.uk /william-tell.htm (773 words)

	Crossbow / TV series of William tell/ Will Lyman / Jeremy Clyde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the peaceful village flsmith to the avenging freedom fighter, the show follows the daring exploits of this legendary hero as he battles to save his son and his country from the evil Governor Hermann Gessler.
		as Governor Hermann Gessler being, of course, our favourite performers.
		He is forced to go against his moral opposition to violence in order to do what he believes to be right.
	www.geocities.com /elinececile/index.html (584 words)

	Bay Weekly: Burton on the Bay
		Those of the crossbow set look back to their hero William Tell, who close to a century later sliced the apple atop his son’s head at the order of the vile Bailiff Hermann Gessler, who was bent on suppressing the freedom of the Swiss.
		When he refused to bow to Gessler’s hat atop a pole in respect to Austria’s rule, he was ordered by the bailiff to take that legendary shot at the apple.
		For this he was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment at Gessler’s castle for the crime of impertinence.
	www.bayweekly.com /year03/issuexi11/burtonxi11.html (1241 words)

	Crossbow
		Having known the rigors of war before, Tell is willing to accept governor's Gessler tyranny to avoid the terror that violence can bring.
		Finding his son caught up in the spirit of rebellion and endangered by Gessler's soldiers, Tell is forced to raise his crossbow once again and his life is changed forever.
		Unfortunately for Gessler, William Tell shot the apple on top of his son's head and a legend was born...
	www.freewebs.com /robertaddie21/CrossbowEn.htm (672 words)

	HAMILTON - pafg89 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Gustoff Hermann Gessler [Parents] was born in 1866.
		Wilhelm Friedrich Gessler [Parents] was born in 1870.
		Johannes Friedrich Gessler [Parents] was born in 1878.
	www.uq.net.au /~zzehamil/pafg89.htm (155 words)

	Methodological Errors \| William Tell
		It was formerly believed that the liberation of Switzerland about 1291 was due to a revolt against an oppressive bailiff sent by the house of Austria, and that the tyrant at that particular time was Hermann Gessler.
		The chief patriotic hero was William Tell, who, because he would not salute the hat of Gessler, which was mounted on a pole, was compelled to shoot an apple from his son's head.
		Gessler is not mentioned by any, nor is there any evidence to [152] show that Gesslers were in possession of any castle in Switzerland.
	www.umass.edu /wsp/methodology/errors/tell.html (1064 words)

	Swiss Miss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Legend states that not long after the three states pledged their mutual assistance pact, the Habsburgs sent a new sheriff by the name of Hermann Gessler to the town of Altdorf in Uri.
		But since Gessler was in a playful mood, the man was given one chance to save his life.
		Since the man was known as an expert with a crossbow, Gessler offered the man his freedom if he could shoot an apple from off the top of his son’s head.
	home.earthlink.net /~hwsportsman/SwissMiss.html (3849 words)

	The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 eBook
		The last was given the poet in the legend of Tell, which in general he took over with pious reverence as authentic history.
		The criticism of Tell’s speeches, whether his pithy, epigrammatic sentences in Act I, Scenes 1 and 3, and elsewhere, or his long monologue in Act IV, Scene 3, applies to the whole constitution of the conventional stage with just as much validity against Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Hamlet as against William Tell.
		True, it is not plausible that Tell recited 100 lines of beautiful poetry while lying in wait for Gessler; neither is it likely that Prince Hamlet talked to himself in pentameters.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/11692/139.html (364 words)

	Hero Of Switzerland: William Tell Page 1
		A few days later Albrecht made his friends Hermann Gessler and Beringer of Landenberg governors over the free cantons, telling them to take soldiers with them to enforce the law and to tax the people in order to pay the soldiers.
		Gessler forced the men of Uri to build this castle, and he meant to use it not only as a house for himself, but as a prison for the people.
		Stauffacher answered quietly, "My lord, this house belongs to the Emperor, and is yours and mine in fief to hold and use for his service." "I rule this land," said Gessler, "in the name of the Emperor, and I will not allow peasants to build houses without asking leave.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/YoungFolks/Myths/YoungFolks_MythsC51P1.htm (1165 words)

	william tell
		Wilhelm Tell watched in horror as his son was dragged from him, and bound to the trunk of the tree.
		To the crowd’s dismay the soldiers once again laid hold of Tell, and hustled him down to a boat that was moored on the lake.
		With Gessler on board, they cast off and set sail for the fortress in which Tell was to be imprisoned.
	www.jamboree.freedom-in-education.co.uk /real_history/william_tell.htm (676 words)

	0406-01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hermann Gessler, the autocratic tax collector, demanded a bow.
		Gessler taunted Tell about his marksmanship and demanded he prove it by shooting an apple off the head of his small son.
		The words were those supplied by Schiller, whose masterpiece drama elevated the story of self-respect and paternal love to the level of international literature.
	www.webcom.com /gerlife/Archives/2004/0406-01.html (5361 words)

	Amazon.com: William Tell: Books: Leonard Everett Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Grade 3-5-In 1307, Hermann Gessler, governor for King Albert of Hapsburg, proclaimed that the citizens of Altdorf must kneel before his hat in the town square.
		The frightened people obeyed for the most part, but a young pig seller and a boy and his sister forgot to kneel and were clapped in chains.
		Gessler was enraged but challenged Tell, a fine hunter, to shoot a single arrow through an apple placed on Jemmy's head.
	www.amazon.com /William-Tell-Leonard-Everett-Fisher/dp/0374384363 (893 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Friedrich Von Schiller: Wilhelm Tell, 1805
		STAUFFACHER: From Gessler only fear I fierce resistance, Surrounded by his cavalry he's dreadful, Not without blood quits he the field, yes though Repelled he still is dreadful to the land, Hard is't and almost dangerous to spare him.
		GESSLER (after a pause): Despisest thou so much thine Emperor, Tell, And me, who have here acted in his stead, That thou denyst the honor to the hat, Which I've hung up to test obedience?
		GESSLER: No, Tell, I will not let that answer pass, There must have been some other purpose to it.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1805schiller-willtell.html (17993 words)

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