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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09824	All the famous battels that haue bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well by sea as lande set foorth at large, liuely described, beautified, and enriched with sundry eloquent orations, and the declaratio[n]s of the causes, with the fruites of them. Collected out of sundry good authors, whose names are expressed in the next page.; All the famous battels that have bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well by sea as lande. Part 1.	Polemon, John.	1578 (1578)	STC 20089; ESTC S114773	256,062	348

beyng therby quite out of daunger or certes very far from any Moreouer Iohn de Medici was commaunded to goe before all the battelles wyth hys horsemen who were verye passyng excellent consisting both of light horsemen and also men of armes and with the light bands of Italian footemen who also serued vnder him that he coursing this way and that way might take all prospecte from the enimies and not suffer their auaunt currers to take any viewe of the French power So the footemen being hidden by Medices horsemen approched wyth great pace not being séene of the enimies yet the formost of Lescunes horsmen were by reason of their glistering armour séene of the Emperials betwéene certaine trées vpon the lefte hand but they did fetch suche a greate compasse about that they séemed to be beyond the camp and to march towardes Milan In the meane time Pescara than whom no man kept a more constant iudgemēt of mind in sodaine chaunce commaunded Gastaldo to scout with a company of horsemen he had not gone far but that hée met with Medici and then their horsemen skirmished togyther very brauely now one side and then the other was driuen backe and the loose shotte came also in among them finally they were so blended togither that neither the one was suffered to haue any certaine knowledge of the approche of the Switzers nor the other of the situation and array of the enimies campe The ordinaunce as I said was opportunely placed in the front of the ditche and the footemen were cast into foure battallions but yet so with equall front that Almaines and Spaniards wer mingled together by course The captain of the Almaynes was George Frondesberg a notoriou man for hys mightie body and strength the harquebusters standyng before the pikes occupied all the whole length of the front when Pescara commanded by as new and witty as afterwarde happy deuise that they should not sette fire to their péeces before that they had séene volagues dischardge at his commaundement But he willed the foremoste rankes that after they had dischardged they shold immediatlye stoupe downe on their knées and charge agayne that the seconde rankes might incontinently discharge without daunger of the foremoste hée also commaunded the seconde and then the third and so the fourth to do the same so that when the last had discharged the firste and the s●●ond rankes should quickly and readily shoote off agayne they●●●charged péeces So that this order being repeated incessantly the footemen of the enimyes myght bée beaten down as it were wyth a continuall storme before that they could come to hand strokes Euent wanted not to Pescara his deuise For when the Switzers approched they first shooting off their great ordināce as also the Emperials had done ranne amaine vnto the ditche suspecting nothing of the disaduantage of the place Where all things were oportunely administred by Pescara both wyth great quietnesse and also celeritie and he did sodainely let flye a storme of small shotte which did so much mischiefe that not onely the ensignes but whole bandes fel downe at once yet Albert himselfe lustily scaling the rampire flewe vnto Frondesberg whom he knewe and callyng him by an opprobrious name did with a mightie arme thrust his pike into his side gréeuously wounding him but Albert himself was immediatly slaine being stroken at from all partes round about And also that bande of desperate fellowes that succéeded hym wyth franticke fease were easily slaine by the Almaines and Spaniardes from the vpper grounde In this encounter Alfonse the Marques of Guasto cousin germā to Pescara was woūded in the arme But the rest of the Switzers after they had béene a long time turmoiled and troubled among the heapes of the slain and the piles of their pikes turned their backes Also at the same time Lescune bringing aboute hys horsmen both giue a charge vpon the backes of the enimies and passyng ouer twoo ditches doth breake into the Campe. Ambrose Landriano the Captaine of the Dukes wing of horsmen is defeated and taken prisoner the tentes are caste downe the hales of Antony de Lena and the Earle of Termine and their siluer plate fall to the share of the lackeys and drudges There is a wounderfull great hurly burly raised throughout the whole Campe feare attacheth not onely the Souldiours but also the Captaines themselues yet Prosperi gets himself quickly out of the feare of this sodaine chaunce and setteth his horsmen caste into troupes against the Frenchmen A●ir●o and the Earle of Collisa valiātly helping him 〈◊〉 Antonin de Lena r●ning th●●her formost of al. Now Lescune fought vpon the bridge with singular prowesse which if he could haue gotten the French horsmē had doubtlesse broken into commit a great slaughter of the Emperials when sée the dukes horsmen aduauncing forwarde their guidons from the high way receiued the encounser also a bande of Italians Harquebusters spéedily ranne vnto theyr succour and also the Milanese that lay beyond the riuer in a verie safe place dyd shoote their fielde péeces ouerthwart vpon the enimies Fraunces Forza the Duke was in that quarter a continual encourager the fyght was diuers and cruell as that which was fought in a place very combersome in all partes not only for the ditches and déepe streames and small riuers but also for the ropes of the tents and many long polles that were set vp to tye the horsses vnto But there was a verye sharpe encounter at the bridge for there Lescune hymselfe being notorious for his Caparissons and plume of fethers in his crest contended with great valour to breake through whose prowesse the Monsieurs Montmorency Baiarde and Pontiremy very forwarde Capitains honorably emulated and also Fredericke de Bozolo one of the house of Mantoa had pierced into the highe waye but the iniquitie of the place did withstande the prowesse of the Frenche horsemen For neyther were they able to breake through wyth thycke troupes nor yet to defende themselues bicause they had brought no and of footmen So the Frenchmē that fought on the bridge after that many on both parties had ben cast down hedlong into the Ryuer wyth fowle slaughter of men and horsses were at length driuen from the bridge Lescunes horse was slayne vnder hym and anone after when he had taken an other he was wounded in the mouth with a sworde whiche was thruste thorough the bener of his helmet and Mounsieur Baccalaure the Ensigne bearer of Monsieur de Brion was slayne and Hugh Earle of Pepoli had his legge shot through with an harquebusse the Frenche guidons were rafte and torne and the Harquebusters that were beyonde the ditche tourning themselues on the side of the enimies did with their often and thick shooting much endamage the men of armes and specially their horses In the meane space the battel of the Switzers being defeated the footmen freste cryed Victorie victorie this most fayful crye brought from one to another euent vnto the hindermost rankes the Frenchmens hartes

fight without feare and valiantly against their enimies their nauie If that anye man did forsake the battell eyther for slouth feare or anye other cause he and his vessell and all that were with him should be incontinently consumed with fire In the meane time he commaunded as our men did that euerye man shoulde repayre incontinently vnto his ranke and order and kéepe it ordeining a grieuous payne for all them that shuld doe otherwise Moreouer he assembling his men togither adhorted them to be myndefull of their wonted prowes through the which they had so often hitherto put to flight this same enimie and reduced into their memorie all the noble actes that they had done in former yeares agaynst Charles the fift and his sonne Philip during the reygne of Solyman Moreouer he briefelye repeated all that they had at sundrye times done agaynste the Venetians and what they had of late gotten by warres and armes that is to wit howe they had augmented the Turkishe dominions with the kingdome of Cyprus Wherefore they ought to remember that they were also nowe to fight wyth those men whome they had so often discomfited and that they shoulde make a waye and entrie not onely into Italie but also shortlye vnto the possession of all Europe and therefore they shoulde fight valiantly assuredly trust that God and Mahomet through whose helpe their auncestours had subdued so manye kingdomes and Prouinces and had broughte backe from the vanquished enimye so manye renowmed victories woulde also be with and assiste them in this battell These things and manye suche lyke did he set before his souldiours with an oration no lesse graue than eloquent that thereby his souldiours although he sawe them of their owne accorde to be sharply inkindled to fight might yet be through these adhortations the more and more accensed Nowe was all the daye almoste spente when that the nauies on both sides were made readie to fight The ennimies fléete was sette in almoste the same araye that oures was For the middle battell came against our middle battell and their wings against ours Our sixe greate galleyes or Galeazes as I haue tolde you wente before of whome two stoode before eyther wyng as a moste sure Bulwarke and the rest wente before the myddle battell These greate Galleyes charging the leaders of the Turkishe battelles against them did beate the ennemie on all sides with their ordinaunce and committed horrible slaughter But althoughe the Turkes had receyued manye greate losses by them and sawe that their orders and rankes were scattered yet they being passed by them did wyth a certayne marueylous pertinacie and stoutenesse of heart gette them incontinentlye vnto the Ensignes So anon the two fléetes ioyned togither in battell and the highe Admirall galleyes of bothe fléetes vsing the surpassing chearefulnesse of the Mariners and Rowers ranne togither with so greate force and violence that their beakes on bothe sides were strycken off They foughte valiantlye and variablye for the space of an whole houre the victorie enclyning vnto neither parte fortune giuing ioyfull hope of prosperous euente nowe vnto oure men and then vnto the aduersaries And nowe they began to fighte no longer with Arrowes Dartes and Gunnes but encountered close togither with their Swordes But when our menne had twyce boorded the Turkishe Admirall and had gotten vnto the Maste and séemed to be maisters of hir they were twyce repulsed thence and not withoute a notable losse by newe succoure that ranne thither Whyle that these thynges are in doing Bernardine de Cardona séeing that Lewes de Figaroa the Captayne of the stemme of the highe Admirall had manye of his menne wounded and slayne came spéedilye to relieue and succoure him wyth Michael de Moncada to whome also that charge had bene enioyned But whylest that Bernardine foughte valiantlye at the stemme with his sworde and target he being shot in with thrée pellets fell downe and dyed the next morning And in that place were also Peter Zaputha Lewes de Ferez Pliege the father Federick de Benauides Gusman Philip de Rhodes Ruide de Mendozza Iohn de S●to and Lewes de Rochenes who was sometime at the standard and sometimes with Dom Iohn and all these noble gentlemen fought against the enimie with great and incredible valor At length our men still vrging with sharpe sight and hauing gotten a fauourable aspect of victorie did after an houre and an halfes fight discomfite the middle battell and boorded and tooke the Admirall galley in whome were about fiue hundreth of the noblemen slayne and mo taken and wounded the Admirall himselfe while that he encourageth his men he erecteth those that doe faynt and be fearefull he confirmeth the couragious he extolleth to the heauens those that fight valiantly and promiseth them great rewardes finally whilest that he executeth no lesse the charge of an excellent Chiefetaine than of a stout souldiour is slayne with a small shot that hit him in the heade the whiche being streightway cut off from his necke was brought by a Spaniard vnto Dom Iohn who as soone as he saw it cōmanded it to be set on the poynt of a speare for a space held it aloft with his own hande as it were a trophey and to strike terror into the heartes of the rest of his enimies who fought yet very valiantly anon were all the Turkish flagges pulled downe and one of the crosse hanged out in their place But although that a principall galley of the enimies sodenly inuaded the Admirall when that she had almost vanquished hir enimies yet she had the same euent that the rest had While that the high Admirals doe most fiercely encounter eche other Partaw and Colonna encountred togither and euery one of Colonna his galleys with the Turkishe some with two and some with thrée as Colonna himselfe and the Admirall of the Venetians had done equall almost was the prowes of the souldiours on both sides At the beginning of the encoūter many were slayne but most on the enimies part by reason that our men had in euery galley thrée hundreth skilfull verye well practised harquebusiers and on the other side the enimye had verye fewe although in steade of them there were innumerable archers and among them some on horsebacke who deadly wounded manye of our menne But in the meane time the Galleye slaues also brought no small helpe to the obteyning of the victorie by hurling of Dartes and stones vpon the enimie While that the chief Captaynes of the fléetes encounter one the other with so bloudy and cruell fight all vessels of both nauies doe also in all partes furiously fight one against the other and Doria and Occhiali runne togither But here was the fight most troublesome and hardest bicause that Doria had ioined with so suttle an enimie and an old beaten Captaine and one whome he sawe did recule backe that he might choose that which he iudged woulde be most for his aduauntage This was a great impediment that his counsels