The Twilight Of A Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800Routledge, 2008 M02 22 - 384 pages First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe. |
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... Catholic cause that the Risorgimento neglected or deprecated. Italian patricians and feudal lords retained theirmilitary traditions and refurbished them with every new generation. Moreover, service to the Habsburgs wasnot the attribute ...
... Catholic cause that the Risorgimento neglected or deprecated. Italian patricians and feudal lords retained theirmilitary traditions and refurbished them with every new generation. Moreover, service to the Habsburgs wasnot the attribute ...
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... Catholic fleet gaveno thoughttoforming a properbattle deployment. Many Christian soldiers werestill on the island, and thegalley commanders« only instinct wasto escapein a. asauve. qui peut«.The Turks took halfthe galleys andmost ofthe ...
... Catholic fleet gaveno thoughttoforming a properbattle deployment. Many Christian soldiers werestill on the island, and thegalley commanders« only instinct wasto escapein a. asauve. qui peut«.The Turks took halfthe galleys andmost ofthe ...
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... Catholic powers reconstituted their losses after each setback. By 1564 the Hispano-Italianeffort madeit possible to collect about ahundred galleys forone expedition.32 The Turkish offensive against Maltain 1565 attempted to ...
... Catholic powers reconstituted their losses after each setback. By 1564 the Hispano-Italianeffort madeit possible to collect about ahundred galleys forone expedition.32 The Turkish offensive against Maltain 1565 attempted to ...
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... Catholic raiding activity, and transform it into anadvance position against southern Italy.The port ofBorgo was a tiny community, despiteits ample,deep- water harbour. When theknights settled there in1530,there wereonly 12,000 peopleon ...
... Catholic raiding activity, and transform it into anadvance position against southern Italy.The port ofBorgo was a tiny community, despiteits ample,deep- water harbour. When theknights settled there in1530,there wereonly 12,000 peopleon ...
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... Catholic forces combinedin Crete were therefore considerable. Venetian, Spanish and Pontifical forces reached a totalof205 galleys and galeasses, with about17,000 infantry aboard, and 4,000 adventurers. 39 Zanedared not ...
... Catholic forces combinedin Crete were therefore considerable. Venetian, Spanish and Pontifical forces reached a totalof205 galleys and galeasses, with about17,000 infantry aboard, and 4,000 adventurers. 39 Zanedared not ...
Contents
The Forty Years War 1618c59 | |
The Venetian epic 1600c1718 | |
The Spanish | |
Austrian horizons expanding 6Profiles and careers | |
The Piedmontese exception The developmentof the Piedmontese military state | |
TheGreat Powers andItalian demilitarization 1700c1814 | |
Themilitary imagination | |
Index | |
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