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Battle of Marignano

23 Sep 1515 – 24 Sep 1515 · 45.37° N, 9.32° E

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23 Sep 1515 – 24 Sep 1515
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Battle
Coordinates
45.37° N, 9.32° E
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1515 battle between Switzerland and France

Battle of Marignano

1515 battle of the War of the League of Cambrai

The Battle of Marignano, which took place on 13–14 September 1515, near the town now called Melegnano, 16 km southeast of Milan, was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai. It pitted the French army, led by Francis I, newly crowned King of France, against the Old Swiss Confederacy. With the French were German landsknechts, and their late-arriving Venetian allies.

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