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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... Lepanto(1571) and the invasions byFrench revolutionary armiesin the1790s. Giventhe extreme diversity ofthematerial available, andthe uneven interest ofgenerations ofhistorians, some parts ofthis accountwill be more detailed thanothers ...
... Lepanto(1571) and the invasions byFrench revolutionary armiesin the1790s. Giventhe extreme diversity ofthematerial available, andthe uneven interest ofgenerations ofhistorians, some parts ofthis accountwill be more detailed thanothers ...
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... Lepanto: ricerche storiche (Naples: 1886);C. Randaccio, Storia delle marine militari italiane, dal 1750 al 1860,e della marina militare italiana dal 1860al 1870 (Rome: 1886); and two books byA. Bernardy atthe turn ofthe century, derived ...
... Lepanto: ricerche storiche (Naples: 1886);C. Randaccio, Storia delle marine militari italiane, dal 1750 al 1860,e della marina militare italiana dal 1860al 1870 (Rome: 1886); and two books byA. Bernardy atthe turn ofthe century, derived ...
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... on the bow superstructure looking down onto the deckof the target ship. 11 At Lepanto the Venetians introduced a secret weapon that,if it did notspell thedemise of galley fleetsfor more than acentury,at least introduced aself-
... on the bow superstructure looking down onto the deckof the target ship. 11 At Lepanto the Venetians introduced a secret weapon that,if it did notspell thedemise of galley fleetsfor more than acentury,at least introduced aself-
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... Lepanto, such as theintroduction of athird mast, made the galeass faster, but it could notoperate independently. It functioned instead as a floating gun-platform for use inset-piece battles. The evolution towards the galeass ...
... Lepanto, such as theintroduction of athird mast, made the galeass faster, but it could notoperate independently. It functioned instead as a floating gun-platform for use inset-piece battles. The evolution towards the galeass ...
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... Lepanto era, which Guilmartin maintains wasten per cent more expensive than operating a Spanish one. 25 Thompson counters that the Genoese alternative was cheaper, more efficient and clearly preferable when there wasnotenough ...
... Lepanto era, which Guilmartin maintains wasten per cent more expensive than operating a Spanish one. 25 Thompson counters that the Genoese alternative was cheaper, more efficient and clearly preferable when there wasnotenough ...
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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