Marignano, Battle of
1515 CE
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.
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