In the turbulent European winds of 1495, the gaze of almost every King and Duke was fixed upon the Italian Peninsula, upon the very center of this Catholic World.
The great army of France swept southward at speed, clearing Northern Italy and Rome in three months. Naples, which lay in the path of the French Army's spearhead, had already collapsed at the first blow of the army's Vanguard. The swift French Cavalry Corps, supported by siege Firearms units, seemed so powerful that no opponent could be found for them!
The young King Charles of France, full of high spirits, led his Knight Corps in formation and strode proudly into unresisting Romagna, like a swaggering military parade. The authority of the Vatican came crashing down! Pope Alexander VI, with his greed and worldly power plays, had stirred up this conflagration of war, and the flames were burning not only the Pope's Divinity and reputation, but had long since grown beyond the range of his control.
