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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... Malta andofSanto Stefano. Their raiding and amphibious campaigning reached paroxysmic levels during thelate sixteenth and earlyseventeenth centuries, and their activity remained notable until the 1720s. What escaped the fascist authors ...
... Malta andofSanto Stefano. Their raiding and amphibious campaigning reached paroxysmic levels during thelate sixteenth and earlyseventeenth centuries, and their activity remained notable until the 1720s. What escaped the fascist authors ...
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... Malta until February 1560 where 2,000 men were lost to illness. In early March, Medina Celiand Gian Andrea Doria chose to occupy the island of Djerba instead of Tripoli, and thetroops that were disembarked there fell to building afort ...
... Malta until February 1560 where 2,000 men were lost to illness. In early March, Medina Celiand Gian Andrea Doria chose to occupy the island of Djerba instead of Tripoli, and thetroops that were disembarked there fell to building afort ...
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... Malta for assistance. Philipsucceeded in inducingthe Italian states, Florence particularly, to increasethe number oftheirown warships since theCatholic effort was seenasajoint one. Spainfurnished partofthe. astart-up«. capital,either ...
... Malta for assistance. Philipsucceeded in inducingthe Italian states, Florence particularly, to increasethe number oftheirown warships since theCatholic effort was seenasajoint one. Spainfurnished partofthe. astart-up«. capital,either ...
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... Malta wasa. adefensive«. victory, won by a few thousand knights and Maltese with the king ofSpain and Italian princes speeding totheiraid. Their rescue was feasible only because the invaders couldnot fight on land andsea simultaneously ...
... Malta wasa. adefensive«. victory, won by a few thousand knights and Maltese with the king ofSpain and Italian princes speeding totheiraid. Their rescue was feasible only because the invaders couldnot fight on land andsea simultaneously ...
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... Malta,provided three galleys each with their own crews and soldiers. Maltese galleys contained thehighest proportion of knights and the largest numberof gentlemen adventurers and men-at-arms. The Genoese hadthe best reputation ...
... Malta,provided three galleys each with their own crews and soldiers. Maltese galleys contained thehighest proportion of knights and the largest numberof gentlemen adventurers and men-at-arms. The Genoese hadthe best reputation ...
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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