Fernandez de Cordoba, Gonzalo

(1453-1515), known as The Great Captain was a Spanish general fighting in the times of the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars. He reorganized the emerging Spanish army and its tactics and came to be known as ‘the Father of Trench Warfare’. He was admired by the generation ofconquistadors that followed and many influential men fought under him such as the father of Francisco Pizarro.