Italian War of 1494-1498

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Was the first of the so-called Italian Wars. The war pitted Charles VIII of France, initially aided by Milan, against the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and an alliance of Italian powers led by Pope Alexander VI, known as the League of Venice.

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1. French conquest of Naples

Was a military campaign by French king Charles VIII against the Kingdom of Naples.

2. Expulsion of the French from Italy (1495)

Was the expulsion of the invading French army from the italian peninsula during the Italian War of 1494-1495.

May 1495: On May 2, 1495, the French fleet (seven galleys, two fustas and two galleons), commanded by the Sire de Molans, collided with the Genoese squadron of Francesco Spinola and Fabrizio Giustiniani (eight galleys, two arrows and a carrack). The clash took place at dawn, and it was a total defeat for the French: all the ships were captured, and, simultaneously, a contingent of troops landed by the Genoese fleet under the command of Gian Ludovico Fieschi and Giovanni Adorno, aided by the Rapallini , they routed the transalpines who had remained on the ground, taking control of the town.

May 1495: Crowned king of Naples, Charles VIII of France stayed there until May when the people and the Neapolitan armies, to the cry of iron! iron!, reinvigorated again under the Aragonese insignia of the young king Ferrandino, managed to drive the French out of the Kingdom.

July 1495: Charles VIII left Naples on 20 May and marched north to reach Lombardy, but met the League army at the Battle of Fornovo on 6 July 1495. Strategically it was a partial victory for the League, since that, although it had failed to annihilate the king of France, it had achieved the aim of having him withdraw from the peninsula.