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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The Battle of Flodden Field, where a numerically inferior English army beat the Scots, with an estimate casualty ratio of 5:1 or as high as 17:1.
** The Battle of Marignano, where King Francis I of France defeated the seemingly invincible Swiss Confederacy.
***Actually Marignano was hardly a curb-stop. It was pretty hard pounding but the French just happened to pound longest that time.
** And the Battle of Pavia, where Spanish-Imperial forces inflicted as much as 15000 casualties on the French at the loss of only 500 dead or wounded; among the captured was King Francis of France himself.
* [[The Empire]]: In theory, the [[Holy Roman Empire]]; in practice, the Habsburg possessions of Charles V, which counted the Netherlands, Spain, and Southern Italy, not to mention the Spanish colonies which helped to pay for the Emperor's war through its shipments of silver.
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