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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... the name ofItaly toother, more fortunate (!) countries wherewar was presentand felt, wherethere wasthe willand the possibility tocultivate that art;lands where lively political energies were fermenting, butwhich lacked brilliant and ...
... the name ofItaly toother, more fortunate (!) countries wherewar was presentand felt, wherethere wasthe willand the possibility tocultivate that art;lands where lively political energies were fermenting, butwhich lacked brilliant and ...
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... was propelled bytwenty-five tothirty oars per side. Its narrow hull was just wide enoughto fit benches forthree orfour oarsmen per oar, separated bya central walkway.The vessel,which layless than a metre above the water-linein the centre, ...
... was propelled bytwenty-five tothirty oars per side. Its narrow hull was just wide enoughto fit benches forthree orfour oarsmen per oar, separated bya central walkway.The vessel,which layless than a metre above the water-linein the centre, ...
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... the seventeenth centurythese were generally slow-moving, unwieldy and cumbersome, with their only advantage being their ... The galley«s strengthin manpower was alsoits chief drawback. It consumed provisionsata rate commensurate with ...
... the seventeenth centurythese were generally slow-moving, unwieldy and cumbersome, with their only advantage being their ... The galley«s strengthin manpower was alsoits chief drawback. It consumed provisionsata rate commensurate with ...
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... was tocapture enemy bases that would support friendly fleets thereafter. Suchwas the purpose of the Hispano- Italian attackon Djerba in1560, the invasion ofMalta in 1565,theOttoman invasion of Cyprusin 1570,the Venetian attack on ...
... was tocapture enemy bases that would support friendly fleets thereafter. Suchwas the purpose of the Hispano- Italian attackon Djerba in1560, the invasion ofMalta in 1565,theOttoman invasion of Cyprusin 1570,the Venetian attack on ...
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... the galeasses, with four times thehull displacement of a normal galley, and packed the sideswith cannonand swivel guns ... was the appearance after 1590 of the improved NorthSea roundship, thebertone, asthe Italians called it. A typical ...
... the galeasses, with four times thehull displacement of a normal galley, and packed the sideswith cannonand swivel guns ... was the appearance after 1590 of the improved NorthSea roundship, thebertone, asthe Italians called it. A typical ...
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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