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A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.
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Battle of Seminara
Battle in the Italian Wars (1495)
The Battle of Seminara, part of the First Italian War, was fought in Calabria on 28 June 1495 between a French garrison in recently conquered Southern Italy and the allied forces of Spain and Naples which were attempting to reconquer these territories. Against the redoubtable…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tercio
Army units of the Spanish Empire
A tercio, Spanish for "[a] third") was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and Habsburg Spain in the early modern period. They were the elite military units of the Spanish monarchy and essential pieces of the powerful land…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Spanish general and statesman (1453–1515)
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general and statesman. He led military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars, after which he served as Viceroy of Naples. For his extensive political and military success, he was made Duke of Santángelo (1497),…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
June 28
Day of the year
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