accompanying the swiss francis seeing parts of his vanguard faltering assembled one thousand heavy cavalry and charged the swiss pikemen that were chasing a band of lance connects rallying them to continue fighting the constable bourbon who commanded the right also managed to regain control of some of his men and with a battery set up on a second line he pushed back another battalion of swiss the fighting continued even after it got dark and the french records complained that their soldiers could not distinguish between friend and foe the fighting ended only at eleven in the evening but it would not be a calm night the swiss rested under the stars at san giuliano and civido very close to their adversaries the french attempted to dislodge them but some of them got lost and encamped behind enemy lines and were short on supplies travisio with some engineers destroyed the embankment of a nearby canal filling their defensive ditch and the water spilled over to some of these swiss positions destroying most of their gunpowder the french king who spent all the night with his buttock on the saddle lance in hand and helmet on the head sent a messenger to lodi calling for dalviano to move with his army at dawn francis positioned his army in three units with himself in the center with the cannons in front and two wings commanded by bourbon and the duke of alonso the three swiss arrays moved against their counterparts with the biggest of them towards the king's position they were mauled by a hail of crossbow bolts archibald shots and cannon fire forcing some of them to retreat but some of the swiss pikemen traversed the flooded ditch took the artillery and fought against the center on the french right the pikes did not engage for either lack of courage or desertion so bourbon charged into the flank of the swiss central battalion on the left the swiss battalion had more success routing the cavalry and alonson some of them attacked the flank of the king's central group while others chased the fleeing soldiers the cavalry of the left flank was soon reorganized and then came the venetian vanguard with dalviano's horsemen the reformed french cavalry and delviano charged the swiss left flank but failed to do much damage and were repulsed however the swiss saw the approaching venetian army and lost heart their right and left battalion started to flee the central formation having lost all hope tried to retreat in good order under the fire of the enemy infantry most escaped on the main road flanked by the waterways six thousand concentrated in a forest where they resisted until the cannons dislodged them while others who sought rescue in some nearby buildings were burnt alive or massacred by the locals travelio would call the fight a battle of giants francis was knighted after the battle by the famous french knight bayar giving him the aura of chivalrous king although the swiss showed their prowess the battle ended with
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