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Guinegate, Battle of

Years: 1479 - 1479

The First Battle of Guinegate takes place on August 7, 1479.

French troops of King Louis XI are defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke (later to be Emperor) Maximilian of Habsburg.

This battle is the first in which the innovative Swiss pike square formation is first employed by a power that is not natively Swiss.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)