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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... militias and cities werecaught upinthe fighting more thanthey cared.By thetime of Napoleon, however,thepassivity ofItalian states to his conquering armies revealed both a lack ofspirit, and alack ofmeans, with which to resist the ...
... militias and cities werecaught upinthe fighting more thanthey cared.By thetime of Napoleon, however,thepassivity ofItalian states to his conquering armies revealed both a lack ofspirit, and alack ofmeans, with which to resist the ...
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... militias, reached 1.3 million soldiers, ofwhom 800,000 at least served in west European armies. In Francealone, there were 100,000 men under arms in 1635, 200,000 in 1640, and maybe500,000 in1690, when one manin ten ofage tocarry arms ...
... militias, reached 1.3 million soldiers, ofwhom 800,000 at least served in west European armies. In Francealone, there were 100,000 men under arms in 1635, 200,000 in 1640, and maybe500,000 in1690, when one manin ten ofage tocarry arms ...
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... militias disarmed, and states maintained publicorder with small garrisons. Tyrant princes and oligarchic republicshad goodreason todisarm their subjects and confide their securityto mercenary warlords. Only the condottieri retained the ...
... militias disarmed, and states maintained publicorder with small garrisons. Tyrant princes and oligarchic republicshad goodreason todisarm their subjects and confide their securityto mercenary warlords. Only the condottieri retained the ...
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... militia,some of whommay never have fireda shot in battle. They included nobleshailing fromregionsunder thesovereignty of Italian states,that is, Savoyards and Dalmatians, and some cosmopolitan aristocrats living outsideItaly, of ...
... militia,some of whommay never have fireda shot in battle. They included nobleshailing fromregionsunder thesovereignty of Italian states,that is, Savoyards and Dalmatians, and some cosmopolitan aristocrats living outsideItaly, of ...
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... militias and the feudal levies, whowould not exceed the numbers ofprofessional troops until an attack was imminent. JohnHale has shown how theVenetian peacetime force of about 9,000 men quadrupledin the space of a few months by drawing ...
... militias and the feudal levies, whowould not exceed the numbers ofprofessional troops until an attack was imminent. JohnHale has shown how theVenetian peacetime force of about 9,000 men quadrupledin the space of a few months by drawing ...
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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