Battle of Bicocca
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Battle of Bicocca 1522
| date | April 27, 1522 |
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| place | Bicocca hunting lodge north of Milan in Lombardy |
| output | Spanish-Habsburg victory |
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| Troop strength | |
| 19,000–31,000 (12,000 French , 3,000 Italian and 16,000 Swiss ) | 18,000+ (4,000 Spaniards, 10,000 Landsknechte, 4,000 Italians, horsemen) |
| losses | |
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approx. 3,000 dead |
only slightly |
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Pavierzug - Novara - Dijonerzug - Marignano - Battle of Bicocca
The Battle of Bicocca was a battle between the troops of the French King Francis I and Emperor Charles V in Bicocca north of Milan on April 27, 1522.
The French and Venetian troops under the command of Odet de Foix were by the Spanish - imperial and papal army under the command of Prospero Colonna beaten. Odet de Foix had to withdraw from Lombardy , the Duchy of Milan came under the rule of the emperor.
Federal troops under Albrecht vom Stein von Bern , Arnold Winkelried von Unterwalden and Ulrich von Sax von St. Gallen , who were defeated on the side of the French army by the imperial troops under Prospero Colonna , played an important role . This defeat was largely due to the superiority of the Spanish arquebusiers and artillery over the Swiss pikemen .
Field clerk for the federal troops was the later Bernese playwright, painter, graphic artist, reformer and statesman Niklaus Manuel .
literature
- Hans Delbrück : History of the Art of War. The Modern Age. Reprint of the first edition from 1920. Nikol, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-933203-76-7 .
- Michael Mallett, Christine Shaw: The Italian Wars 1494–1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe. Pearson, Harlow 2012, ISBN 978-0-582-05758-6
Web links
- Alessandra Maffioli: Bicocca, Battle of. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 45 ° 31 ′ 4.8 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 36 ″ E