The Sonderbund War Hostile_encounter ( ) of November 1847 was a civil war in Switzerland , then still a relatively loose confederacy of cantons ( states ) .

The war concluded Process_end with the defeat of the Sonderbund .

The Sonderbund consisted of the cantons of Lucerne , Fribourg , Valais , Uri , Schwyz , Unterwalden and Zug , all predominantly Catholic and governed Control by Conservative administrations .

After the ( Federal Diet ) declared Expressing_publicly the Sonderbund unconstitutional and ordered Arranging it dissolved by force , General Guillaume Henri Dufour led the federal army of 100,000 and defeated Conquering the Sonderbund under Johann-Ulrich von Salis-Soglio in a campaign that lasted only a few weeks , from November 3 to November 29 , and claimed Statement fewer than a hundred lives .

After the ( Federal Diet ) declared Expressing_publicly the Sonderbund unconstitutional and ordered Arranging it dissolved by force , General Guillaume Henri Dufour led the federal army of 100,000 and defeated Conquering the Sonderbund under Johann-Ulrich von Salis-Soglio in a campaign that lasted only a few weeks , from November 3 to November 29 , and claimed Statement fewer than a hundred lives .

The rest of the Sonderbund surrendered Surrendering without armed resistance in the subsequent weeks .