April 28, 1503 · Apulia, Kingdom of Naples Theater
April 28, 1503
Outnumbered, Gonzalo de Córdoba dug a ditch and an earth rampart across the French line of advance, lined it with arquebusiers, and waited. The French gendarmes — the finest heavy cavalry in Europe — charged into the ditch and were shot to pieces at point-blank range. Nemours was killed. The Spanish lost perhaps a hundred men.
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