Filters:
Group: Timişoara, Ottoman eyalet of
People: David Reubeni
Topic: Guinegate, Battle of
Location: Flavia Solva Steiermark (Styria) Austria

Guinegate, Battle of

Years: 1479 - 1479

The First Battle of Guinegate takes place on August 7, 1479.

French troops of King Louis XI are defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke (later to be Emperor) Maximilian of Habsburg.

This battle is the first in which the innovative Swiss pike square formation is first employed by a power that is not natively Swiss.

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”

— Paul Harvey, radio broadcast (before 1977)