Ludovico Sforza Loses Milan
1499
The French king Louis XII invaded Italy on an old Orleans claim to Milan. Ludovico Sforza, who had invited Charles VIII into Italy five years earlier to his eventual ruin, fled to the Tyrol. Leonardo's unfinished bronze horse was used by French archers for target practice. Milan had become European property.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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