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Charles VIII.




            The Second Italian War in 1499




            happened when the French




            troops invaded, and they used the




            clay pre-cast for the great statue




            for target practice. The French




            troops had kicked the Duke                                                                                                   was to devise ways to defend the




            of  Milan off  from power, and                                                                                               city from a naval attack. This was




            Leonardo, with a few assistants,                                                                                             also a when Leonardo started




            fled to the city of  Venice where                                                                                            on his famous sketches about




            he was given a job as a military                                                                                             helicopters, wings that would




            architect and engineer. His job                                                                                              make people fly, and tanks as well
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