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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... on the treasury wasthe maintenanceof a string ofbasesin North Africa, like Melilla, Ceuta andOran, sometimes held only to preventthem from falling into enemy hands. Finding galleys,crews and especially oarsmen was themost difficult part ...
... on the treasury wasthe maintenanceof a string ofbasesin North Africa, like Melilla, Ceuta andOran, sometimes held only to preventthem from falling into enemy hands. Finding galleys,crews and especially oarsmen was themost difficult part ...
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... onthe island on18 May. They quicklyoverran it save for the old capital of CittàVecchia andthe Borgo, which was protected byFort St Elmo onthe tipof a barren peninsula. This fortkeptthe Turkish fleet away from the town, andit was heldat ...
... onthe island on18 May. They quicklyoverran it save for the old capital of CittàVecchia andthe Borgo, which was protected byFort St Elmo onthe tipof a barren peninsula. This fortkeptthe Turkish fleet away from the town, andit was heldat ...
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... onthe Italian coast reachedalarming proportions, though there wasno longer afear ofinvasion andconquest. Particularly vulnerable to raids mounted from Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania wasthe south coast of Sicily, Sardinia andCalabria ...
... onthe Italian coast reachedalarming proportions, though there wasno longer afear ofinvasion andconquest. Particularly vulnerable to raids mounted from Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania wasthe south coast of Sicily, Sardinia andCalabria ...
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... onthe island of Malta south of Sicily in1530. It was a military order composed of noblemen who took ecclesiastical vows of celibacy and charity,and consecrated several years of their youthserving on the galleysofthe order. Afterthisthey ...
... onthe island of Malta south of Sicily in1530. It was a military order composed of noblemen who took ecclesiastical vows of celibacy and charity,and consecrated several years of their youthserving on the galleysofthe order. Afterthisthey ...
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... it prevented dispersalof family patrimony. Better tobe aafighting monk« than a poor cadet.Once admitted, the youngster had tospend five years onthe island, and complete fouracaravans« ofsixmonths each on thegalleys ofthe order, eitherat.
... it prevented dispersalof family patrimony. Better tobe aafighting monk« than a poor cadet.Once admitted, the youngster had tospend five years onthe island, and complete fouracaravans« ofsixmonths each on thegalleys ofthe order, eitherat.
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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