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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... Turks in the Aegean. Del Negro«s characterization ofFascist historians, that theywaxed longingly over the lives andgestures of greatfigures who possessed. ®laforza. del carattere ̄, isaptin this regard.15 They were all deemed virtuous ...
... Turks in the Aegean. Del Negro«s characterization ofFascist historians, that theywaxed longingly over the lives andgestures of greatfigures who possessed. ®laforza. del carattere ̄, isaptin this regard.15 They were all deemed virtuous ...
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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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... Turks. 13 Galeasses figured inevery Christianfleet thereafter, andeven normal galleystended toincrease in length and armamentin the subsequent decades. But theincreased operating costlimited theirnumbers. Thepriceoffood more than ...
... Turks. 13 Galeasses figured inevery Christianfleet thereafter, andeven normal galleystended toincrease in length and armamentin the subsequent decades. But theincreased operating costlimited theirnumbers. Thepriceoffood more than ...
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... Turkish ascendancy atsea, the outcome ofthe running battle ofPrevesain 1538,limited Spain«s chancesto reduce these pirate ... Turks took halfthe galleys andmost ofthe supplyships. MedinaCeli readieda relief force of 14,000 troops (again ...
... Turkish ascendancy atsea, the outcome ofthe running battle ofPrevesain 1538,limited Spain«s chancesto reduce these pirate ... Turks took halfthe galleys andmost ofthe supplyships. MedinaCeli readieda relief force of 14,000 troops (again ...
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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)
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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