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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... territories and their allies, circa 1620 Map 3.1 The campaign against Genoa in 1625 Map 3.2 Papal annexations, 1597¥1649 Map 3.3 Zones ravaged by war in north-central Italy, 1613¥59 Map 4.1 The Venetian seaborne empire, circa 1620 Map ...
... territories and their allies, circa 1620 Map 3.1 The campaign against Genoa in 1625 Map 3.2 Papal annexations, 1597¥1649 Map 3.3 Zones ravaged by war in north-central Italy, 1613¥59 Map 4.1 The Venetian seaborne empire, circa 1620 Map ...
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... territorial competition was akindof Italiancivil war, historiansfelt rather that the main problemwas that Italian forces were fighting eachother in wars where the only victorcould be a foreign monarch: theking ofSpain,as it turned out ...
... territorial competition was akindof Italiancivil war, historiansfelt rather that the main problemwas that Italian forces were fighting eachother in wars where the only victorcould be a foreign monarch: theking ofSpain,as it turned out ...
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... territorial militias simultaneously.36 The republic beefed up its garrisons everywhere. Mercenaries habitually sent to the Greek islands were untrustworthy, because they had established families thereand had begunto till the soil.There ...
... territorial militias simultaneously.36 The republic beefed up its garrisons everywhere. Mercenaries habitually sent to the Greek islands were untrustworthy, because they had established families thereand had begunto till the soil.There ...
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... territories to garrison against the Ottomans,the Venetians were hard pressed to find troopsfor their galleys. They hadto hire Calabrian and Neapolitan captains and their companies at premium prices. TheVenetians reliedheavily on Croat ...
... territories to garrison against the Ottomans,the Venetians were hard pressed to find troopsfor their galleys. They hadto hire Calabrian and Neapolitan captains and their companies at premium prices. TheVenetians reliedheavily on Croat ...
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... territory ascompensation, with thehelp oftheChristian uprisings that followed thegreat battle. Having different strategic aimsfrom the Spaniards andthe Pope,Venice preferred to goits ownway. Therepublic«s strength was still considerable ...
... territory ascompensation, with thehelp oftheChristian uprisings that followed thegreat battle. Having different strategic aimsfrom the Spaniards andthe Pope,Venice preferred to goits ownway. Therepublic«s strength was still considerable ...
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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