Cappel, a village of Switzerland, in the canton of Zurich, 4½ miles N. of Zug. Here the reformer Zwingli was killed in a conflict with troops of the Catholic cantons, 11th October 1531. A monument has been erected to his memory.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 746
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