Brewer's: Morat

Morat and Marathon twin names shall stand (Childe Harold, iii. 64). Morat, in Switzerland, is famous for the battle fought in 1476, in which the Swiss defeated Charles le Téméraire of Burgundy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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