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The Battle of Cerignola was fought on April 28, 1503, between Spanish and French armies, in Cerignola, near Bari in Southern Italy. Spanish forces, under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, formed by 6,300 men, including 2,000 landsknechte, with more than 1,000 arquebusiers, and 20 cannons, defeated the French who had 9,000 men; mainly heavy gendarme cavalry and Swiss mercenary pikemen, with about 40 cannons, and led by Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, who was killed.

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  • The Battle of Cerignola was fought on April 28, 1503, between Spanish and French armies, in Cerignola, near Bari in Southern Italy. Spanish forces, under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, formed by 6,300 men, including 2,000 landsknechte, with more than 1,000 arquebusiers, and 20 cannons, defeated the French who had 9,000 men; mainly heavy gendarme cavalry and Swiss mercenary pikemen, with about 40 cannons, and led by Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, who was killed.
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  • Battle of Cerignola
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  • Decisive Spanish victory
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  • *1,000 footarquebusiers
  • *1,000+ other infantry
  • *1,100 light horse
  • *2,500-3,500 French infantry
  • *2.000landsknechts
  • *20 guns
  • *3,500 Swiss infantry
  • *40 guns (arrived too late)
  • *650 Frenchgendarmes
  • *700 men-at-arms
  • *800 light horse
  • ~6,300 men
  • ~9,000 men
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