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40.5 Battle of Fornovo 1495
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18 minutes
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Nov 24, 2017
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King Charles VIII of France, following his conquest of Naples, heads back through Italy to France but is attacked on his way back by a combined Venetian-Milanese army. The two sides meet near the village of Fornovo, near Parma. Although ultimately a failure, Charles' expeditions had major repercussions for it triggered the decades long Italian Wars, when the Italian peninsula became the battleground between foreign powers For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Nov 24, 2017
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Podcast episode
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