The
War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the
War of the Holy League and by several other names, was a major conflict in the
Italian Wars. The principal participants of the war, which was fought from 1508 to 1516, were
France, the
Papal States, and the
Republic of Venice; they were joined, at various times, by nearly every significant power in
Western Europe, including
Spain, the
Holy Roman Empire, the
Kingdom of England, the
Kingdom of Scotland, the
Duchy of Milan,
Florence, the
Duchy of Ferrara, and the
Swiss.
Pope Julius II, intending to curb Venetian influence in northern
Italy, had created the
League of Cambrai, an anti-Venetian alliance that included, besides himself,
Louis XII of France,
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and
Ferdinand I of Spain. Although the League was initially successful, friction between Julius and Louis caused it to collapse by 1510; Julius then allied himself with Venice against France. The Veneto-Papal alliance eventually expanded into the Holy League, which drove the French from Italy in 1512; disagreements about the division of the spoils, however, led Venice to abandon the alliance in favor of one with France. Under the leadership of
Francis I, who had succeeded Louis to the throne, the French and Venetians would, through their victory at
Marignano in 1515, regain the territory they had lost; the treaties of
Noyon and
Brussels, which ended the war the next year, would essentially return the map of Italy to the status quo of 1508.
The 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (French: 1er régiment étranger de génie) (1er REG) is a Military engineer regiment in the French Foreign Legion. It is a part of the 6th Light Armoured Brigade. The regiment is station in Laudon.
It was created on 1 October, 1939 as the 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment. The manpower came from 3 battalions of the 1st Foreign Infantry Regiment and one from 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment. It was disbanded 1 January 1942 and its soldiers were transeferred into the 1st Foreign Regiment and Foreign Legion depots. (More...)
