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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... Turkish invasion of Crete (1645), and attempts against Algiers (1545 and1600) and Peñon (1563) by the Spaniards. These shoreside targets were more worthwhile objectives than the destruction of an enemy fleetarrayed in battleorder. 8 ...
... Turkish invasion of Crete (1645), and attempts against Algiers (1545 and1600) and Peñon (1563) by the Spaniards. These shoreside targets were more worthwhile objectives than the destruction of an enemy fleetarrayed in battleorder. 8 ...
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... Turkish ascendancy atsea, the outcome ofthe running battle ofPrevesain 1538,limited Spain«s chancesto reduce these pirate bases.Spanish expeditions against them werenevertheless largely Italian affairs, conceived and directed from Italy ...
... Turkish ascendancy atsea, the outcome ofthe running battle ofPrevesain 1538,limited Spain«s chancesto reduce these pirate bases.Spanish expeditions against them werenevertheless largely Italian affairs, conceived and directed from Italy ...
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... galleys forone expedition.32 The Turkish offensive against Maltain 1565 attempted to reassertMoslem ascendancy. Map 1.1 Naval bases in the western Mediterranean in the seventeenth century (after J.Alcala-Zamora yQueipo de Llano)
... galleys forone expedition.32 The Turkish offensive against Maltain 1565 attempted to reassertMoslem ascendancy. Map 1.1 Naval bases in the western Mediterranean in the seventeenth century (after J.Alcala-Zamora yQueipo de Llano)
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... Turkish-Barbary fleet surpassing 150sail, landed about 25,000 soldiers andworkers onthe island on18 May. They quicklyoverran it save for the old capital of CittàVecchia andthe Borgo, which was protected byFort St Elmo onthe tipof a ...
... Turkish-Barbary fleet surpassing 150sail, landed about 25,000 soldiers andworkers onthe island on18 May. They quicklyoverran it save for the old capital of CittàVecchia andthe Borgo, which was protected byFort St Elmo onthe tipof a ...
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... Turkish conquest of theisland. Nicosia fell after abouta month«s siegeand sixassaults, andmost ofthe surviving Italians were massacred inthe main square. Byearly 1571 it was Famagusta«s turn,having only 2,000 Italian soldiersin garrison ...
... Turkish conquest of theisland. Nicosia fell after abouta month«s siegeand sixassaults, andmost ofthe surviving Italians were massacred inthe main square. Byearly 1571 it was Famagusta«s turn,having only 2,000 Italian soldiersin garrison ...
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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