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330 CHAPTER III. ITALIAN WARS, — GONSALVO SUCCOURS THE POPE. — TREATY WITH FRANCE. — ORGANIZATION OF THE SPANISH MILITIA. 1496 — 1498. Gonsalvo Succours the Pope. — Storms Ostia. — Reception in Rome. — Peace with France. — Ferdinand's Reputation advanced by his Conduct in the War. — Organization of the Militia. PART II. War ou the side of Roussillon. It had been arranged by the treaty of Venice, that, while the allies were carrying on the war in Naples, the emperor elect and the king of Spain should make a diversion in their favor, by invading the French frontiers. Ferdinand had performed his part of the engagement. Ever since the be- ginning of the war, he had maintained a large force along the borders from Fontarabia to Perpi- gnan. In 1496, the regular army kept in pay amounted to ten thousand horse and fifteen thousand foot ; which, together with the Sicilian armament, necessarily involved an expenditure exceedingly heavy under the financial pressure occasioned by the Moorish war. The command of the levies in Roussillon was given to Don Enrique Enriquez de Guzman, who, far from acting on the defensive, carried his men repeatedly over the border, sweep- ing off fifteen or twenty thousand head of cattle in