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Defeat of Holy Roman emperor Frederick I
Barbarossa by members of the Lombard League
1176 at Legnano, NW of Milan. It was a major
setback to the emperor's plans for imperial
domination over Italy and showed for the
first time the power of infantry against
feudal cavalry.