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Marignano, Battle of

Years: 1515 - 1515

The Battle of Marignano is fought during the phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1559) called the War of the League of Cambrai, between France and the Old Swiss Confederacy.

It takes place on September 13 and 14, 1515, near the town today called Melegnano, sixteen kilometers southeast of Milan.

It results in a victory for French forces.It pits the French army, composed of the best armored lancers and artillery in Europe and led by Francis I, newly crowned king of France and a day past his twenty-first birthday, against the Old Swiss Confederacy.

With Francis are German landsknechts, bitter rivals of the Swiss for fame and renown in war, and his late arriving Venetian allies.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)