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Battle of Cerignola (1503): The Day Small Arms Changed Everything

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Five centuries before IPSC stages were designed around cover and concealment, a Spanish general was already running the same math — use the terrain, control the distance, make your rate of fire problem someone else's problem. Gonzalo de Córdoba had raised the infantry soldier armed with a handgun to the status of the most important fighting man on the battlefield—a status he was to retain for over 400 years. —Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1983 That's not hyperbole from a historian tryin...

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Battle of Cerignola (1503): The Day Small Arms Changed Everything

On April 28, 1503, two professional armies met outside the town of Cerignola in Apulia, in what was then the Kingdom of Naples—roughly 80 kilometers west of Bari. The Spanish force, commanded by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (known to history as *El G

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