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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... soldiers, the Venetian governorbuilt a hugerampart 8 km (5mi) long around Nicosia, and used forced labourand mass evictions toprepare the city for a siege. At sea Venice was able to muster 136 galleys plus 11of the new galeasses. From ...
... soldiers, the Venetian governorbuilt a hugerampart 8 km (5mi) long around Nicosia, and used forced labourand mass evictions toprepare the city for a siege. At sea Venice was able to muster 136 galleys plus 11of the new galeasses. From ...
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... soldiers in1571, or 29 per cent of all the overseas garrisonsof the republic. 40 Theepic siege ofFamagusta, which lasted eighteen months provedthe technical superiority of the Venetians over the Turks. Its garrison surrendered 41 only ...
... soldiers in1571, or 29 per cent of all the overseas garrisonsof the republic. 40 Theepic siege ofFamagusta, which lasted eighteen months provedthe technical superiority of the Venetians over the Turks. Its garrison surrendered 41 only ...
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... soldiers in abundance wasnotso difficult for Philip II. Even the suspicious Venetians accepted1,500 Spanish,Italian and German soldiers inthe Catholic king«s pay on its galleys to compensatefor theirownlack of troops. In totalthere were ...
... soldiers in abundance wasnotso difficult for Philip II. Even the suspicious Venetians accepted1,500 Spanish,Italian and German soldiers inthe Catholic king«s pay on its galleys to compensatefor theirownlack of troops. In totalthere were ...
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... soldiers onDon Juan«s galley surged onto the deck of the Turkish flagship afterthe fourth attempt, and killed the admiralAli Pasha himself. His severed head displayed aloft was the signal to the Catholics that they had won. In that day ...
... soldiers onDon Juan«s galley surged onto the deck of the Turkish flagship afterthe fourth attempt, and killed the admiralAli Pasha himself. His severed head displayed aloft was the signal to the Catholics that they had won. In that day ...
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... soldiers of Maltadied, and 500 Sicilians drowned. 84 Adventureunder a religious banner held great appeal for Catholic noblemen in thelate sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The recruits came fromnoble houses exclusively ...
... soldiers of Maltadied, and 500 Sicilians drowned. 84 Adventureunder a religious banner held great appeal for Catholic noblemen in thelate sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The recruits came fromnoble houses exclusively ...
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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