Talk:Battle of Bicocca

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Four Things[edit]

1. Wrong date. 2. Wrong reasons. 3. The 'Spanish' were not Spanish. 4. They did not use 'muskets'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.204.23.105 (talk • contribs)

Huh? I'm pretty sure the battle was on April 22; perhaps there's a Julian/Gregorian calendar issue here, though?
It's just a stub, so there's really no discussion of reasons; is there something specific you're referring to?
"Army in the Habsburg employ" would be more accurate; but Pescara, at the least, considered himself to be a Spanish nobleman.
Yes, "arquebuses" would be more accurate.

Thanks for the comments! Kirill Lok s h in 16:58, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It should be noted that the date was, in fact, April 27 rather than April 22. Kirill Lokshin 03:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flag icons[edit]

Let's see:

The icons break the alignment of the text, as they're not all the same height.
The relevant guideline specifically states that "the use of flag icons is not recommended".
The icons add no value to the reader, since the names of the countries are already present, and they do not represent the actual flags flown at the battle.

(It is, as a general rule, somewhat impolite to insist on stylistic changes over the objections of an article's regular editors. But that's neither here nor there.) Kirill 00:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(On a slightly related subject, you're putting in an unnecessary HTML break; items in infobox fields are supposed to be vertically top-aligned, not center-aligned, regardless of whether images are present or not. That's a minor issue, though.) Kirill 00:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, shrinking the images slightly eliminates the major alignment problems. I don't particularly like them even at this size, but I'm willing to live with the result. Kirill 00:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bicocca[edit]

Calling it the "Battle of Bicocca" may be the convention among historians writing in English, but a "bicocca" is not a place, but a thing: a small fort, so "Battaglia della bicocca" translates properly not as "Battle of Bicocca" but "Battle of the bicocca" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.127.230.159 (talk) 09:42, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're quite correct regarding the proper translation; but, as you suspect, "Battle of Bicocca" is by far the prevailing form of the name in English-language historiography. Kirill ^[talk] 13:17, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]