Fornovo 1495 - France’s Bloody Fighting Retreat
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Fornovo 1495
France's Bloody Fighting Retreat
In the year 1495, Charles VIII was
the youthful king of France, the
most powerful state in medieval
Europe. A dreamer who saw
himself as the saviour of Christian
Europe, he believed he could roll
back the ever-spreading tide of
Ottoman Turkish conquest. As a
base for his crusade he was
determined to seize southern Italy.
In a lightning campaign he used France's modern army to sweep through Italy, his mobile field artillery train smashing into dust the tall towers of Italy's medieval castles. The Italian states rallied and at Fornovo their alliance, the League of Venice, fought Charles' army to a standstill.
