As a soldier Bern was remarkable for his excellent handling of artillery and the rapidity of his marches.
Bern was in command and was seriously wounded in the last pitched battle of the war, fought there on the 9th of August.
Vevey was a Roman settlement [Viviscus] and later formed part of the barony of Vaud, that was held by the counts and dukes of Savoy till 1536, when it was conquered by Bern.
After a year of zealous work as preacher and director he was sent by the bishop, Claude de Granier, to try and win back the province of Chablais, which had embraced Calvinism when usurped by Bern in 1535, and had retained it even after its restitution to Savoy in 1564.
But no power of imagination can conceive an acknowledged right of private war in Rome, Venice or Bern.
