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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... corsair flotilla, and knew something aboutwarfare at sea. Aboard were 3,000 troops in Papal pay, and many adventurers. The Tuscan crusading order ofSanto Stefano manned five of these galleys themselves,with about ahundred knights aboard ...
... corsair flotilla, and knew something aboutwarfare at sea. Aboard were 3,000 troops in Papal pay, and many adventurers. The Tuscan crusading order ofSanto Stefano manned five of these galleys themselves,with about ahundred knights aboard ...
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... corsair bases along the coast. The Venetians desired for theirpart torelieve Famagusta and ifnot recaptureCyprus,then atleast occupyGreek coastal territory ascompensation, with thehelp oftheChristian uprisings that followed thegreat ...
... corsair bases along the coast. The Venetians desired for theirpart torelieve Famagusta and ifnot recaptureCyprus,then atleast occupyGreek coastal territory ascompensation, with thehelp oftheChristian uprisings that followed thegreat ...
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... corsair activity, even though they probably depended upon it to agreater degree than did the Catholics. Michel Fontenayhas tried to establish the true dimensions of this corsair economy inthe Mediterranean midway through theseventeenth ...
... corsair activity, even though they probably depended upon it to agreater degree than did the Catholics. Michel Fontenayhas tried to establish the true dimensions of this corsair economy inthe Mediterranean midway through theseventeenth ...
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... corsair admiral lavishly entertained his Italian relatives on board. 71 Leaving Sicily in peace, as he he looted Malta on his way home, but was driven off by the knights promised, and militia. 72 Italy«s defence against such raids ...
... corsair admiral lavishly entertained his Italian relatives on board. 71 Leaving Sicily in peace, as he he looted Malta on his way home, but was driven off by the knights promised, and militia. 72 Italy«s defence against such raids ...
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... maintenance of galleys ofthe order, asacts of Christian charity, permitting the gradual increase inthe sizeofthe flotilla just as the number of knights was declining.By the 1660s,there were about30 corsair vessels operating.
... maintenance of galleys ofthe order, asacts of Christian charity, permitting the gradual increase inthe sizeofthe flotilla just as the number of knights was declining.By the 1660s,there were about30 corsair vessels operating.
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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