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What is your favorite military clash that happened between the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the fall of the Bastille (1789, mark of the French Revolution)?
Mine are...
Pavia (1515) -- prevented the bourbon french from expanding their ambitions in Italy and cemented Milan as a Habsburg duchy.
Malta (1565) -- i'd say this one was more decisive than Lepanto.
Blenheim (1704) -- prevented the french kingdom's forces from knocking Austria out of the Spanish Succession War and estabilishing a supply line towards Rakoczi's Hungary.
Outside Europe...
Third Battle of Panipat (1761) -- put a check the rather impressive expansion of the Maratha Empire and cemented its decline. The other two battles that also happened before at Panipat are interesting, too.
Chaldiran (1514) -- cut off Persia from the Middle East and prevented it from coming to the Mamluk Sultanate's aid against the ottomans.
Alger (1775) -- could the spanish, not the french, have started colonizing Algeria if they won this one?
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