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* UsefulNotes/GonzaloFernandezDeCordoba, the Great Captain, sometimes surprised enemies by charging at the head of his men even in highly risky missions.
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* France had a strong medieval tradition of generals personally spearheading their heavy cavalry, which at the time of the UsefulNotes/ItalianWars only gave them at least four decisive setbacks against Spain (the battles of Cerignola, the Sesia, Pavia and Landriano) by having their commander killed or captured while leading an excessively reckless charge. Specific examples include:
* UsefulNotes/GonzaloFernandezDeCordoba, the Great Captain, sometimes surprised enemies by charging at the head of his men even in highly risky missions. However, he also demonstrated the reverse of this when the French general who faced him Cerignola, Louis d'Armagnac, was efficiently killed by Fernández's arquebusiers during a cavalry charge he was leading.
** After utterly wrecking the Spaniards in Ravenna, French commander Gaston de Foix got overconfident and led personally a cavalry charge against what he believed to be an imminently routing block of soldiers, only for the latter to turn back and kill him on the spot. As Foix was the brain of the whole campaign, it became meaningless without him and their forces had to withdraw.
* UsefulNotes/GonzaloFernandezDeCordoba, the Great Captain, sometimes surprised enemies by charging at the head of his men even in highly risky missions. However, he also demonstrated the reverse of this when the French general who faced him Cerignola, Louis d'Armagnac, was efficiently killed by Fernández's arquebusiers during a cavalry charge he was leading.
** After utterly wrecking the Spaniards in Ravenna, French commander Gaston de Foix got overconfident and led personally a cavalry charge against what he believed to be an imminently routing block of soldiers, only for the latter to turn back and kill him on the spot. As Foix was the brain of the whole campaign, it became meaningless without him and their forces had to withdraw.
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* France had a strong medieval tradition of generals personally spearheading their heavy cavalry, which cavalry. This proved increasingly dangerous with the evolution of warfare, however, and at the time of the UsefulNotes/ItalianWars only gave them UsefulNotes/ItalianWars, France suffered at least four decisive setbacks against Spain (the battles of Cerignola, the Sesia, Pavia and Landriano) by having Landriano, as well as a Pyrrhic victory in Ravenna) with their commander killed general killed, incapacitated or captured while in the process of leading an excessively reckless charge. Specific examples include:
* UsefulNotes/GonzaloFernandezDeCordoba, the Great Captain, sometimes surprised enemies by chargingcharge.
** The battle of Cerignola featured both generals at thehead of his men even frontlines, only in highly risky missions. However, starkly different formations. When he also demonstrated found the reverse of this when the Spanish entrenched, French general who faced him Cerignola, Louis d'Armagnac, was efficiently killed d'Armagnac opted to go by Fernández's default for a frontal cavalry charge. His Spanish counterpart, the aforementioned Fernández de Córdoba, had placed his aquebusiers and pikemen at the front of the trench, with himself placed among them to direct personally the effort (he even [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic refused to wear his helmet]] for extra morale). The clash saw the Spanish arquebusiers during a cavalry charge he was leading.
utterly decimating the French, killing Louis and pretty much sealed the battle.
** After utterly wrecking the Spaniards in Ravenna, French commander Gaston de Foix got overconfident and led personally a cavalry charge against what he believed to be an imminently routing block of soldiers, only for the latter toturn back stand firm and kill him on the spot. As Foix was the brain of the whole campaign, it became meaningless without him and their forces had to withdraw.
* UsefulNotes/GonzaloFernandezDeCordoba, the Great Captain, sometimes surprised enemies by charging
** The battle of Cerignola featured both generals at the
** After utterly wrecking the Spaniards in Ravenna, French commander Gaston de Foix got overconfident and led personally a cavalry charge against what he believed to be an imminently routing block of soldiers, only for the latter to
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* During the Battle of Rocroi, French general Louis II de Bourbon led personally a cavalry charge against the Spanish lines, in an insane move that should have got him killed, but which in this case capitalized on the disorganization of the Spanish army under the incompetent Francisco de Melo and effectively managed to break it into two (and ''almost'' got him killed too, as Bourbon was peppered by arquebus shots in the process, lost his horse and only survived because his courasse resisted the impacts). Melo himself became an additional, involuntary example of a frontline general when he moved to his own frontlines to escape the rout of his reard guard.
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* During the Battle of Rocroi, French general Louis II de Bourbon led personally a cavalry charge against the Spanish lines, in an insane move that should have got him killed, but which in this case capitalized on the disorganization of the Spanish army under the incompetent Francisco de Melo and effectively managed to break it into two (and ''almost'' got him Louis himself killed too, as Bourbon he was peppered by arquebus shots in the process, lost his horse and only survived because his courasse resisted the impacts). Melo himself became an additional, involuntary example of a frontline general when he moved to his own frontlines to escape the rout of his reard guard.
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** General Maxwell Taylor was the commander of the 101st Airborne Division and jumped alongside his men into Normandy and Eindhoven. He happened to be in America for a conference when the 101st had their finest hour at Bastogne, saying that his absence was his greatest disappointment of the war.
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** General Maxwell Taylor was the commander of the 101st Airborne Division and jumped alongside his men into Normandy and Eindhoven. He happened to be in America for a conference when the 101st had their finest hour at Bastogne, saying that his absence was his greatest disappointment of the war. His deputy, General Anthony [=McAuliffe=], led the division during the battle, and famously replied to a German demand for surrender with the word "Nuts!"
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** General Maxwell Taylor was the commander of the 101st Airborne Division and jumped alongside his men into Normandy and Eindhoven. He happened to be in America for a conference when the 101st had their finest hour at Bastogne, saying that his absence was his greatest disappointment of the war.
