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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... Spain, ferrying Spanish troops, to effect the relief of the Oran garrison. That force contained only four Spanish galleys out of forty-two. An expedition by the same fleetto capture Peñon de Velez failed fortheloss of surprisein July ...
... Spain, ferrying Spanish troops, to effect the relief of the Oran garrison. That force contained only four Spanish galleys out of forty-two. An expedition by the same fleetto capture Peñon de Velez failed fortheloss of surprisein July ...
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... the Spanish Captain-General Don Garciade Toledogathered hisforces in Italy. By the end of August 1565he had 100 galleys available, with levies of soldiers hired throughout southern Europeand concentrated atMessina and Syracuse. Hundreds ...
... the Spanish Captain-General Don Garciade Toledogathered hisforces in Italy. By the end of August 1565he had 100 galleys available, with levies of soldiers hired throughout southern Europeand concentrated atMessina and Syracuse. Hundreds ...
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... The Spanish-Italian fleet of104 galleys took Tunisthat year,but when they dispersedforthe winter, the Ottomanfleet sallied forth. A large army landed in Tunisia, captured La Goletta with its 2,000 soldiers, and then reduced the stranded ...
... The Spanish-Italian fleet of104 galleys took Tunisthat year,but when they dispersedforthe winter, the Ottomanfleet sallied forth. A large army landed in Tunisia, captured La Goletta with its 2,000 soldiers, and then reduced the stranded ...
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... the Spanish empire resultedin fewer resources directed to galley patrols. The 33 galleys in the Naples flotilla in 1583numbered only 26 in 1621 and 17in 1633, increasingly decrepit and poorly manned. There was no peace, though, since ...
... the Spanish empire resultedin fewer resources directed to galley patrols. The 33 galleys in the Naples flotilla in 1583numbered only 26 in 1621 and 17in 1633, increasingly decrepit and poorly manned. There was no peace, though, since ...
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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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