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a.d. 1525.]
BATTLE OF PAVIA.
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Bird's-eye View of Rhodes in the Sixteenth Century. From an Ancient Manuscript.

hilated to a man. The Spanish musketeers then broke the French ranks; and the king, being already wounded twice in the face, and once in the hand, refused to surrender to the Spaniards who environed him. Fortunately, Pomperant, a French gentleman in the service of the Duke of Bourbon, recognised him, and called Lannoy, to whom the king resigned his sword. Lannoy kneeling, kissed the king's hand, took the sword, and