Sword of Great Captain

Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, a man of high military reputation at the time of Ferdinand and Isabella (XV and XVI), achieved his first exploits in the conquest of Granada, highlighting campaigns mainly in Sicily and Naples, known there for his Great Captain excellence in the art of war.

Introduced major reforms in the army giving predominance of Infantry, and trained his men through a rigorous discipline and formed his moral awakening in them the pride of body, personal dignity, sense of national honor and religious interest. Spanish infantry made ​​the formidable army that the French were saying after having fought against him, who had not fought with men but devils.