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It seems to have the same reason: English scholars thinking that it would be smart to adopt an orthography that doesn't match the pronounciation, to be more consistent with latin. i.e. the opposite of what modern-day spelling reforms usually try to do.
https://nowiknow.com/the-silent-and-not-so-silent-l/
Apparently "coronel" was first borrowed from French. No surprise there I guess, with the superfluous vowel in the middle.
But the spelling is fucked up because they changed the spelling to the Italian one without changing the pronounciation. It's like the worst of both worlds, the "worlds" being "keep the French version" and "change spelling and pronounciation to the Italian version".
All the weird words for military purposes especially relating to officer ranks come from french. You can blame the Normans (and by extension once again everything is scandavia's fault) or that whole time period where England and France were basically constantly at war, or once again everything is Napoleon's fault.
France had a long period as the dominant land power of Europe and that resulted in a lot of military organization words in most European languages being pulled from them. It's similar to how a lot of military traditions and styles come from Prussia.