What year did Napoleon establish the Helvetic Republic in Switzerland?

1798 → duck · beef.

In 1798 French revolutionary armies invaded and dissolved the centuries-old confederation, imposing the centralised Helvetic Republic modelled on revolutionary France — a single unitary state that stripped the cantons of their sovereignty. It was deeply unpopular, financially ruinous, and wracked by coups and revolts, surviving only while propped up by French bayonets. Peg 17 · 98 → duck · beef: a rubber duck on a slab of beef.

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• Helvetic Republic — Wikipedia — the short-lived, French-imposed centralized Swiss state.