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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... raiding 2 Italy in the age ofHabsburg hegemony, 1560c1620 TheSpanish system inItaly Wars ofreligion inFlanders and France Crusade inHungary against Islam Firstchallenge: the Venetian¥Piedmontese alliance 3 The Forty Years War, 1618c59 ...
... raiding 2 Italy in the age ofHabsburg hegemony, 1560c1620 TheSpanish system inItaly Wars ofreligion inFlanders and France Crusade inHungary against Islam Firstchallenge: the Venetian¥Piedmontese alliance 3 The Forty Years War, 1618c59 ...
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... raiding and amphibious campaigning reached paroxysmic levels during thelate sixteenth and earlyseventeenth centuries, and their activity remained notable until the 1720s. What escaped the fascist authors entirely, and therefore ismy ...
... raiding and amphibious campaigning reached paroxysmic levels during thelate sixteenth and earlyseventeenth centuries, and their activity remained notable until the 1720s. What escaped the fascist authors entirely, and therefore ismy ...
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... raiding parties tolandina twinkling on thebeach, to storma castle or a port. Working closeto shore inawaynot possible for sailing ships, galleys could perform valuable work in a siege, firing their cannon at vulnerable flanks of ...
... raiding parties tolandina twinkling on thebeach, to storma castle or a port. Working closeto shore inawaynot possible for sailing ships, galleys could perform valuable work in a siege, firing their cannon at vulnerable flanks of ...
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... offthe coasts of Tuscany before raiding thesouthern coast ofSicilyand burning the city ofAugusta. Theyprobably captured about7,000 prisonersin these raids alone. 29 Thedisaster befalling the fleet at Djerba was only oneof a.
... offthe coasts of Tuscany before raiding thesouthern coast ofSicilyand burning the city ofAugusta. Theyprobably captured about7,000 prisonersin these raids alone. 29 Thedisaster befalling the fleet at Djerba was only oneof a.
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... raiding activity, and transform it into anadvance position against southern Italy.The port ofBorgo was a tiny community, despiteits ample,deep- water harbour. When theknights settled there in1530,there wereonly 12,000 peopleon theisland ...
... raiding activity, and transform it into anadvance position against southern Italy.The port ofBorgo was a tiny community, despiteits ample,deep- water harbour. When theknights settled there in1530,there wereonly 12,000 peopleon theisland ...
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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