. The story of Bayard : the good knight without fear and without reproach . to have the Terra di Lavora,the Abruzzi, Naples and Gaeta, but no mentionwas made of the great mountain tract between,and here the war began. First the Spaniards weredriven back to Barletta on the northern coast,then the Great Captain retook Cerignola, anancient city on rising ground, well fortified andcommanding the surrounding country. Heplaced his army and artillery in good position, andhere the French general, the Duke of Nemours,was unwise enough to attack him, the battlebeginning not long before sunset. Never was
. The story of Bayard : the good knight without fear and without reproach . to have the Terra di Lavora,the Abruzzi, Naples and Gaeta, but no mentionwas made of the great mountain tract between,and here the war began. First the Spaniards weredriven back to Barletta on the northern coast,then the Great Captain retook Cerignola, anancient city on rising ground, well fortified andcommanding the surrounding country. Heplaced his army and artillery in good position, andhere the French general, the Duke of Nemours,was unwise enough to attack him, the battlebeginning not long before sunset. Never wasthere a more complete defeat, for in little over anhour the French army was utterly routed witha loss of more than three thousand. This famousengagement, which decided the campaign, wasfought on 28th April 1503. The feats of arms in which the Good Knightso greatly distinguished himself and spread hischivalrous fame throughout Europe, took placeduring the kind of guerrilla fighting in Apulia andbefore the battle of Cerignola. They will berelated in the following CHAPTER XV How the Good Knight without Pear and without Reproachwent forth from his Garrison at Monervine1 in Apulia—How he met some Spanish Knights and what befell. THE French men-at-arms, scattered about invarious small strongholds in Apulia, to thesouth-east of Italy, were always on the lookoutfor an opportunity of crossing swords with theSpaniards. There were gallant knights on bothsides who were very glad of opportunity of meeting,but these passages-at-arms, however brilliant,were more of the nature of tournaments andcould have no decisive result. Pierre de Bayard, the Good Knight, had beenplaced in command of a garrison at a place calledMonervine, by his captain, Louis dArs. Therehad been no fighting in his neighbourhood forsome little time, and he began to get ratherweary of the monotonous work of keeping guard 1 Minervino THE STORY OF BAYARD 99 and seeing that arms and armour were all kept i
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