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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... Venice andConstantinople, galleys from all over the Mediterranean wereused side-by-side bytheircaptors and sometimes changed handsseveral times. 2 The crucial innovation inthe sixteenth century was the replacement of the trireme ...
... Venice andConstantinople, galleys from all over the Mediterranean wereused side-by-side bytheircaptors and sometimes changed handsseveral times. 2 The crucial innovation inthe sixteenth century was the replacement of the trireme ...
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... Venice and Constantinople. Naples, Messina, Genoa,and Maltawere staging areas able to store supplies and crews, but few other cities played an important role. 6 Imagine the arrival in port of a hundred galleys,a number frequently cited ...
... Venice and Constantinople. Naples, Messina, Genoa,and Maltawere staging areas able to store supplies and crews, but few other cities played an important role. 6 Imagine the arrival in port of a hundred galleys,a number frequently cited ...
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... Venice. By farthe most expensive and laborious partofany galley expedition was to find theoarsmen. In medieval Venice, serviceat theoarwas aduty incumbent onable-bodied men, andmobilization stripped.
... Venice. By farthe most expensive and laborious partofany galley expedition was to find theoarsmen. In medieval Venice, serviceat theoarwas aduty incumbent onable-bodied men, andmobilization stripped.
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... Venice was committed to floating more than a hundred galleys, the quality ofthe workforce declined. 19By 1592 only the pilot (orlantern) galleys, equivalent to flagships, were using crews of freemen; all theothersused convicts and ...
... Venice was committed to floating more than a hundred galleys, the quality ofthe workforce declined. 19By 1592 only the pilot (orlantern) galleys, equivalent to flagships, were using crews of freemen; all theothersused convicts and ...
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... Venice could confront the combined resources of theOttoman Empire on equal terms. Luckily forthem, Constantinople played into their handsafter the death ofSultan Suleiman in 1566.The Turkish fleet bared its teeth at Venice that year ...
... Venice could confront the combined resources of theOttoman Empire on equal terms. Luckily forthem, Constantinople played into their handsafter the death ofSultan Suleiman in 1566.The Turkish fleet bared its teeth at Venice that year ...
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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