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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... sixteenth century! That was the equivalent of 30,000 or 40,000 men, more than the largest European armies, and entirelydependent upon local stocks of food asthey spent longmonths inport waitingfor developments. Forty thousand men ...
... sixteenth century! That was the equivalent of 30,000 or 40,000 men, more than the largest European armies, and entirelydependent upon local stocks of food asthey spent longmonths inport waitingfor developments. Forty thousand men ...
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... sixteenth century good bronze gunswere expensive and rare, like thegreat hand-carved stoneballs they fired. Thesingle bronze piece was usually flanked byacoupleof iron ones of lesser calibre. Anassortment of smallerswivel pieces ...
... sixteenth century good bronze gunswere expensive and rare, like thegreat hand-carved stoneballs they fired. Thesingle bronze piece was usually flanked byacoupleof iron ones of lesser calibre. Anassortment of smallerswivel pieces ...
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... sixteenth century, reducing the. acost-effectiveness«. ofgalleys as warships. 14ATuscan version, built around 1600, reportedly carried 36heavy guns and 64 pierriers, and1,200 men. Itmusthave been ruinous tooperate, and unlikelyto catch ...
... sixteenth century, reducing the. acost-effectiveness«. ofgalleys as warships. 14ATuscan version, built around 1600, reportedly carried 36heavy guns and 64 pierriers, and1,200 men. Itmusthave been ruinous tooperate, and unlikelyto catch ...
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... sixteenth century, many oarsmenwere impressed seamen, captured pirates orconvicts, recruited from asfar away asBavaria. By 1580,when Venice was committed to floating more than a hundred galleys, the quality ofthe workforce declined ...
... sixteenth century, many oarsmenwere impressed seamen, captured pirates orconvicts, recruited from asfar away asBavaria. By 1580,when Venice was committed to floating more than a hundred galleys, the quality ofthe workforce declined ...
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... sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The recruits came fromnoble houses exclusively. Admission to the order was considered a genealogical benchmark, and a certificate ofgood lineage. Each family prepared a thick applicationfile ...
... sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The recruits came fromnoble houses exclusively. Admission to the order was considered a genealogical benchmark, and a certificate ofgood lineage. Each family prepared a thick applicationfile ...
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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