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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... ofthe military activity ofnobles fromallover the peninsula.There was no way of knowing howreliable they were without looking atthe political evolution ofthe peninsula andthe military infrastructure over the long term. This we didby ...
... ofthe military activity ofnobles fromallover the peninsula.There was no way of knowing howreliable they were without looking atthe political evolution ofthe peninsula andthe military infrastructure over the long term. This we didby ...
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... ofthe Italian aristocracy, and the wayit identifiedwith the Habsburg Catholic cause that the Risorgimento neglected or deprecated. Italian patricians and feudal lords retained theirmilitary traditions and refurbished them with every new ...
... ofthe Italian aristocracy, and the wayit identifiedwith the Habsburg Catholic cause that the Risorgimento neglected or deprecated. Italian patricians and feudal lords retained theirmilitary traditions and refurbished them with every new ...
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... ofthe Spanish fleet, they refer mostly toItalian galleys based in Naples andSicily, withothers rented from Genoese and Roman entrepreneurs. Add to thosethe Tuscan, Papal andSavoyard auxiliary flotillas in Spanish pay, and the enormous ...
... ofthe Spanish fleet, they refer mostly toItalian galleys based in Naples andSicily, withothers rented from Genoese and Roman entrepreneurs. Add to thosethe Tuscan, Papal andSavoyard auxiliary flotillas in Spanish pay, and the enormous ...
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... the like of which hadnever beenseen, with six timesthe armament of a normal galley. Placed 700 metres (2,300 ft) in front of the Catholic array, they broke the cohesion ofthe Ottoman line,and meted out punishment by firingfrom the.
... the like of which hadnever beenseen, with six timesthe armament of a normal galley. Placed 700 metres (2,300 ft) in front of the Catholic array, they broke the cohesion ofthe Ottoman line,and meted out punishment by firingfrom the.
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... ofthe outcome. The Spanish-Italian fleet of104 galleys took Tunisthat year,but when they dispersedforthe winter, the Ottomanfleet sallied forth. A large army landed in Tunisia, captured La Goletta with its 2,000 soldiers, and then ...
... ofthe outcome. The Spanish-Italian fleet of104 galleys took Tunisthat year,but when they dispersedforthe winter, the Ottomanfleet sallied forth. A large army landed in Tunisia, captured La Goletta with its 2,000 soldiers, and then ...
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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