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 Mediterranean.35 Spanish preoccupation with an Islamic guerrilla warin Iberia left the door open foran Ottoman ... from Bosnia, overwhelming smalleroutposts on the Montenegrin coast likeDulcigno, Antevariand Budua. They besieged ...
... the Mediterranean.35 Spanish preoccupation with an Islamic guerrilla warin Iberia left the door open foran Ottoman ... from Bosnia, overwhelming smalleroutposts on the Montenegrin coast likeDulcigno, Antevariand Budua. They besieged ...
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... the chiefof the triumvirate; MarcAntonio Colonna, aRoman patrician for the Papal States, and admiral Sebastiano Venier forVenice. TheVenetian flotillas at Crete united with Spanish and Papal ships (most ofwhich were rented from Florence) at ...
... the chiefof the triumvirate; MarcAntonio Colonna, aRoman patrician for the Papal States, and admiral Sebastiano Venier forVenice. TheVenetian flotillas at Crete united with Spanish and Papal ships (most ofwhich were rented from Florence) at ...
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... The third pillar oftheHoly League wasthePope, who bankrolled one-sixth of thetotal costof theCatholic fleet, and provided hisownsquadron of12 galleys, with Tuscan crews,rented from the grand duke. MarcAntonio Colonna had once owned a ...
... The third pillar oftheHoly League wasthePope, who bankrolled one-sixth of thetotal costof theCatholic fleet, and provided hisownsquadron of12 galleys, with Tuscan crews,rented from the grand duke. MarcAntonio Colonna had once owned a ...
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... from the coastline, cutting it off ever further from the outside world. 63 Moslem pirates operated occasionally in larger fleetsof galleys and small ships; Dragut Pasha sacked Reggio Calabria in 1585;in 1594,Sinan Pasha, aSicilian ...
... from the coastline, cutting it off ever further from the outside world. 63 Moslem pirates operated occasionally in larger fleetsof galleys and small ships; Dragut Pasha sacked Reggio Calabria in 1585;in 1594,Sinan Pasha, aSicilian ...
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... from Calabria, whose galleys escaped unscathed from the disasterat Lepanto,and Sinan Pasha, aliasScipione Cicala,aMessinese patrician captured at sea during the Djerba expedition withhis father, who was agalley entrepreneur for Spain ...
... from Calabria, whose galleys escaped unscathed from the disasterat Lepanto,and Sinan Pasha, aliasScipione Cicala,aMessinese patrician captured at sea during the Djerba expedition withhis father, who was agalley entrepreneur for Spain ...
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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