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75 VICTORY OF CERIGNOLA. 75 troops. In the centre he placed his German auxil- chapter iaries, armed with their long pikes, and on each. L__ wing the Spanish infantry under the command of forces.^""'" Pedro Navarro, Diego de Paredes, Pizarro, and other illustrious captains. The defence of the artil- lery was committed to the left wing. A considera- ble body of men-at-arms, including those recently equipped from the spoils of Ruvo, was drawn up within the intrenchments, in a quarter affording a convenient opening for a sally, and placed under the orders of Mendoza and Fabrizio Colonna, whose brother Prospero and Pedro de la Paz took charge of the light cavalry, which was posted without the lines to annoy the advance of the enemy, and act on any point, as occasion might require. Having completed his preparations, the Spanish general coolly waited the assault of the French. The duke of Nemours had marshalled his forces The French forces. in a very different order. He distributed them in- to three battles or divisions, stationing his heavy horse, composing altogether, as Gonsalvo declared, " the finest body of cavalry seen for many years in Italy," under the command of Louis d'Ars, on the right. The second and centre division, formed somewhat in the rear of the right, was made up of the Swiss and Gascon infantry, headed by the brave Chandieu ; and his left, consisting chiefly of his light cavalry, and drawn up, like the last, some- what in the rear of the preceding, was intrusted to AUegre." 19 Chronica del Gran Capitan, rorum, fol. 253-255. — Ulloa, Vi- cap. 76. — Giovio, Vilae Illust. Vi- ta di Carlo V., fol. 17.