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King Francis crosses the Alps in mid-October …
Years: 1524 - 1524
September
King Francis crosses the Alps in mid-October and advances on Milan at the head of an army numbering more than forty thousand men.
Bourbon and d'Avalos, their troops not yet recovered from the campaign in Provence, are in no position to offer serious resistance.
The French army moves in several columns, brushing aside Imperial attempts to hold its advance, but fails to bring the main body of Imperial troops to battle.
Nevertheless, Charles de Lannoy, who has concentrated some sixteen thousand men to resist the thirty-three thousand French troops closing on Milan, decides that the city cannot be defended and withdraws to Lodi on October 26.
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- Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Charles de Lannoy
- Fernando d'Avalos
- Francis I of France
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Years: 1524 - 1524
September
Locations
People
- Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Charles de Lannoy
- Fernando d'Avalos
- Francis I of France
Groups
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Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions