Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona-Anglesola was one of the main Spanish military leaders during the Eighty Years' War, Thirty Years' War, and the War of the Mantuan Succession.
Engraving of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Battle of Fleurus (1622)
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The Battle of Fleurus, 29 August 1622, took place during the Thirty Years' War near Fleurus in Belgium, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. A Spanish army commanded by Córdoba defeated a larger Prot
The Battle of Fleurus 1622 by Peter Snayers
Cavalry arquebussiers, unlike dragoons, fired from horseback, and were a light cavalry much favoured by the Army of Flanders.
Cuirassier, this heavy cavalry formed the backbone of the Protestant Army.
Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Bishop of Halberstadt.