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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... galleys based in Naples andSicily, withothers rented from Genoese and Roman entrepreneurs. Add to thosethe Tuscan ... galleys could only operate in conjunctionwith Turkish ones insummer, and for the rest of the year they wereon their own ...
... galleys based in Naples andSicily, withothers rented from Genoese and Roman entrepreneurs. Add to thosethe Tuscan ... galleys could only operate in conjunctionwith Turkish ones insummer, and for the rest of the year they wereon their own ...
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... galleys assembledoff the Màlaga coast, with the loss of several thousand lives. This requiredthe urgent assembly ofmost of the available Italian galleys off Spain, ferrying Spanish troops, to effect the relief of the Oran garrison. That ...
... galleys assembledoff the Màlaga coast, with the loss of several thousand lives. This requiredthe urgent assembly ofmost of the available Italian galleys off Spain, ferrying Spanish troops, to effect the relief of the Oran garrison. That ...
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... galleys available, with levies of soldiers hired throughout southern Europeand concentrated atMessina and Syracuse. Hundreds of noble volunteers,for the most partItalians, joined them. When 10,000 Spanish, Germanand Italiantroops ...
... galleys available, with levies of soldiers hired throughout southern Europeand concentrated atMessina and Syracuse. Hundreds of noble volunteers,for the most partItalians, joined them. When 10,000 Spanish, Germanand Italiantroops ...
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... galleys plus 11of the new galeasses. From the total they managedto assemble a high seas strike fleet of 77galleys and20 roundships. The empire also hadto contribute to the build-up ofthefleet, with Creteproducing 29 galleyson its own ...
... galleys plus 11of the new galeasses. From the total they managedto assemble a high seas strike fleet of 77galleys and20 roundships. The empire also hadto contribute to the build-up ofthefleet, with Creteproducing 29 galleyson its own ...
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... galleys at Messina and recruiting troops of Spaniards and Italians for Sicily and forthe galleys themselves. The combined squadrons of Sicily, Naples and Genoa comprised about sixty galleys, carryingseveral thousand troops. Catholic ...
... galleys at Messina and recruiting troops of Spaniards and Italians for Sicily and forthe galleys themselves. The combined squadrons of Sicily, Naples and Genoa comprised about sixty galleys, carryingseveral thousand troops. Catholic ...
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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