Today's challenge is preventing the Imperial Sack of Rome. How? You choose (But try to use post 1520 PoD(s), please.).
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My fault, I meant after 1525.
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My fault, I meant after 1525.
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AHC: 1527 - Save Rome
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Koprulu Mustafa Pasha
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The pope does anything to please Charles V. Or someone else needs to threaten Italy that keeps Charles V attention of Rome.
It’s probably ASB but off the top of my head-
what if Henry VIII had agreed to send troops
to protect the Pope in exchange for which(of
course)the divorce from Katherine is app-
roved?
Would attacking France be more effective? This would force Charles to redirect any armies to defend his lands instead of sending them far south into Italy.
Rocky, it’s certainly a course of action that
would have been quite attractive to Henry
(who of course did not like France, fought
her on several occasions, & really seems
to, @ times, dreamed of re-starting the
HYW). OTH, directly helping the Pope out
might have been the only way(other of
course than the one he did take IOTL)that
he could have gotten Ann.
Charles V wins some battles earlier against the French, ransoms off some prisoners, and actually pays his mercenaries. Apparently these guys were owed three years of backpay when they sacked Rome. I wonder what these guys were eating if they weren't getting paid.
The mercenaries weren’t living off the land. And by living I mean pillaging every thing