Ferdinand de Velasco

Don Ferdinand de Velasco is noble a Spanish and military chief of the XVIe century.

Governor of the Milanese and constable of Castille, crosses the the Alps with the head of a strong army of 12.000 men come from the garrisons of Italy and Sicily. With Besancon, it is joined by the small troop of the duke Charles de Mayenne, chief of the catholic Ligue. Together, they moved towards Dijon in order to take again the city. Henri IV, prevented of their arrival, ran of Troyes with the 3.000 men whom it succeeded in gathering, then overcame them with the Bataille of Fountain-Frenchwoman the June 5th 1595, subjecting the catholic Ligue definitively.

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