Battle of La Motta
Battle of La Motta
Part of: Battle of the Holy League against France
| date | October 7 , 1513 |
|---|---|
| place | near Vicenza |
| output | Spanish victory for the Holy League |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 4,000 Spanish infantry, 3,500 mercenaries, 1,000 mounted men and 32 artillery pieces |
10,000 infantry, 3,000 mounted and 24 guns |
| losses | |
|
unknown but minor |
~ 4,500 |
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Great Venetian War (1508-1516)
League of Cambrai (1508–1510)
Agnadello - Padua - Polesella - Mirandola
Holy League (1510 / 11–1516)
Brescia - Ravenna - Navarra - St. Mathieu - Novara - Guinegate - Dijon - Flodden Field - La Motta - Marignano
The Battle of La Motta , also known as the Battle of Schio , Battle of Creazzo or Battle of Vicenza , took place on October 7, 1513 between troops of the Republic of Venice and an allied army of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire . It is one of the battles of the Italian Wars in the Holy League against France . A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano tried to prevent the allied army under Ramón de Cardona from withdrawing from Veneto , but was defeated and dispersed despite the overwhelming odds.
literature
- Reinhard Baumann: Georg von Frundsberg. Strumberger Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7991-6236-4 .
- Hans Delbrück : History of the Art of War. The Modern Age. 1920. (Reprint: Nikol Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-933203-76-7 )
- Michael Mallet, Christine Shaw: The Italian Wars 1494–1559. Pearson, Harlow 2012, ISBN 978-0-582-05758-6 .
- Elena Filippi: Una beffa imperiale - Storia e immagini della battaglia di Vicenza (1513) . Vicenza 1996, ISBN 88-7305-530-3 .