Significant1503

Battle of Cerignola

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Cerignola · Apulia · Kingdom of Naples

Estimated casualties

3.0K – 4.0Kestimated dead

French losses ~3,000+ killed; Spanish casualties barely a few hundred. Total ~3,000-4,000.

SOURCEWikipedia / Mallett & Shaw, The Italian Wars

On 28 April 1503 a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba defeated a French force in the Kingdom of Naples, generally regarded as the first major European battle won by gunpowder small arms (arquebuses behind entrenchments).

Belligerents2

Spain
France

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)Kingdom of France

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Cerignola
Mallett & Shaw, The Italian Wars 1494-1559
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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