Fornovo 1495

France's bloody fighting retreat

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Fornovo 1495

France's bloody fighting retreat

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A compact, illustrated guide to the first major battle of the Italian Wars.

In the year 1495, Charles VIII was the youthful King of France, the most powerful state in medieval Europe. A dreamer who saw himself as the saviour of Christian Europe, he believed he could roll back the ever-spreading tide of Ottoman Turkish conquest. As a base for his crusade he was determined to seize southern Italy. In a lightning campaign he used France's modern army to sweep through Italy, his mobile field artillery train smashing into dust the tall towers of Italy's medieval castles.

David Nicolle describes the battle, in which the Italian states rallied and at Fornovo their alliance, the League of Venice, fought Charles' army to a standstill.

Table of Contents

Origins of the Campaign
Opposing Leaders
Opposing Armies
Opposing Plans
The Campaign
The Battle of Fornovo
Aftermath
The Battlefield Today
Chronology
Wargaming Fornovo
Further Reading

Product details

Published 15 Sep 1996
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781855325227
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 89 b/w; 17 col
Dimensions 248 x 184 mm
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 43
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

David Nicolle

David Nicolle is Visiting Research Fellow at the I…

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Richard Hook

Richard Hook was born in 1938 and trained at Reiga…

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