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20 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I will continue with Italian wars. Before I go on, I will make this thread of threads to compile previous presentations I made of the most epic battles of the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516), one of the most brutal conflicts in history of Europe. Image
Battle of Agnadello (1509)

Battle of Ravenna (1512)

Battle of Novara (1513)

Battle of La Motta (1513)

Battle of Marignano (1515)

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22 Jul
Today 22 July is the anniversary of the final battle of the 1456 siege of Belgrade where John Hunyadi and his crusader Christian force defeated the Mohammedan Ottomans and stopped the Ottoman expansion into Europe for decades. One of the last real crusades in Europe! Image
Ottoman sultan Mehmed II the Conquerer conquered Constantinople in 1453. He was determined to continue his expansion north further into the Balkans, targeting Serbian Despotate and Kingdom of Hungary. Mehmed's ambitions signaled the beginning of a new phase of Ottoman expansion. ImageImageImage
Kingdom of Hungary had fought with the Ottomans already, where one general in particular, John Hunyadi, made his name fighting the Turks all over the Balkans, achieving many notable victories and gaining fame all over Christendom. A veteran warrior, he was ready for another war. ImageImage
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21 Jul
Battle of the Sesia River in 1524 was another defeat of the French in the Italian War of 1521-26, defeated by Imperial forces. During this battle, they also lost one of the finest French knights Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, who fell on the battlefield, shot by an arquebus. Image
Despite their crushing defeat at Bicocca in 1522, the French king Francis I managed to send another big army to Italy in late 1523 led by Guillaume Gouffier, Lord of Bonnivet. Francis gained money for this new army by seizing properties of Charles III, Duke of Bourbon. ImageImage
Charles of Bourbon was angered by this and abandoned the French king Francis, switching sides and entering emperor Charles V's service instead. Meanwhile a huge French army under Bonnivet, numbering around 35000 men including Swiss mercenaries marched into Italy to conquer Milan. ImageImage
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21 Jul
Battle of Bicocca was another crucial and bloody battle in the Italian Wars, fought on 27 April 1522. Imperial-Spanish forces crushed the French and their Swiss mercenaries, in a battle that marked yet another important step in the evolution of the pike and shot warfare. Image
The Italian wars began in 1494 and in the next three decades they were fought with only brief interruptions. The War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516) was particularly bloody, with practically all the European superpowers at the time joining coalitions against each other. Image
In 1516 peace was made that ended the War of the League of Cambrai and pretty much returned things to the 1508 status quo ante bellum. However like it was common in the Italian Wars, peace would not last long as tensions among the European superpowers increased again soon. Image
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20 Jul
Battle of Covadonga was the first Christian victory in the glorious Spanish reconquista. Fought in 722, the Christians led by the legendary noble warrior Pelagius of Asturias ambushed and defeated a much larger army of Moors! The flame of resistance was lit! Image
In 711 the Mohammedan Moors of the Umayyad Caliphate defeated the Visigothic Kingdom in the battle of Guadalete. King Roderic died and his kingdom collapsed very quickly in the next years, as the Ummayads managed to conquer almost entire Iberian peninsula in relatively short time ImageImage
Only a tiny land of Asturias far in the north protected by the Cantabrian mountains remained defiant. This was a land of ancient warriors from the mountains whom even the Romans never managed to fully subdue! The Visigoths also never entirely conquered these lands. Image
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16 Jul
Today is the anniversary of the glorious battle of Las Navas de Tolosa fought on 16 July 1212, the most famous and crucial battle of the Spanish Reconquista! The joined crusader force of Christian knights defeated the mighty Mohammedan army of the Almohad Caliphate! Deus vult!
The reason why this battle was so crucial was that it followed a string of successes of the Almohads, the mighty Caliphate that replaced the former Moroccan Almoravid dynasty by 1147 and imposed a much more strict form of Islam, treating other religions worse than past rulers.
The Almohads secured an important victory over the Christian forces of Castille in 1195 in the battle of Alarcos after which they captured a lot of Castillian cities and castles. The Mohammedans were on the offensive and Spain and entire Christendom was alarmed by their advance.
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15 Jul
The epic 1515 battle of Marignano was fought between the French (led by young king Francis I) and the Swiss over two days and became known as the battle of the giants! The decisive encounter of the War of the League of Cambrai and one of the bloodiest clashes of the Italian Wars!
Before the War of the League of Cambrai started in 1508, the French held the Duchy of Milan and the war started with them invading Venice and crushing them in 1509. But in the next years, the alliances shifted and the tide turned against the French who ended up ousted from Italy!
The Duchy of Milan was occupied by Swiss mercenaries who beat the French at Novara in 1513 and installed Maximilian Sforza as the Duke of Milan. The French new ally Venice was beaten in the same year by Spanish-Imperial forces near Vicenza. Things looked bad for France in Italy!
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