 Complete the following phrase:  Although the Italian Wars 14941559 came to dominate the reign of Francis I, the wars were not the sole focus of his policies. Francis merely continued the incessant wars that his predecessors had started and that his successors on the throne of France would drag on after Francis death. Indeed, the Italian Wars had begun when Milan sent a plea to King Charles VIII of France for protection against the aggressive actions of the King of Naples. Militarily and diplomatically, Francis reign was a mixed bag of success and failure. Francis tried and failed to become Holy Roman Emperor at the Imperial election of 1519. However, there were also temporary victories, such as in the portion of the Italian Wars called the War of the League of Cambrai 15081516 and, more specifically, to the final stage of that war, which history refers to simply as Francis First Italian War 15151516, when Francis routed the combined forces of the Papal States and the Old Swiss Confederacy at 