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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... by gathering its 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 ...
... by gathering its 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 ...
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... the fieldof fire.The Turks tried toforce the Christian leftwing along theshore, but Barbarigo«s Venetian galleys prevented this bypinning them there.Then, at close quarters, great boarding parties lunged ateach other with swords ...
... the fieldof fire.The Turks tried toforce the Christian leftwing along theshore, but Barbarigo«s Venetian galleys prevented this bypinning them there.Then, at close quarters, great boarding parties lunged ateach other with swords ...
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... to raids mounted from Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania wasthe south coast of Sicily, Sardinia andCalabria. Sardinia«s population declined absolutely as it fled from the coastline, cutting it off ever further from the outside world. 63 ...
... to raids mounted from Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania wasthe south coast of Sicily, Sardinia andCalabria. Sardinia«s population declined absolutely as it fled from the coastline, cutting it off ever further from the outside world. 63 ...
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Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800 Gregory Hanlon. Volunteers for the oarsmen«s benches(the buonavoglie) were ever ... and fortress were designed bythe engineer FrancescoLaparelli from Cortona inTuscany, with the aidofthe.
Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800 Gregory Hanlon. Volunteers for the oarsmen«s benches(the buonavoglie) were ever ... and fortress were designed bythe engineer FrancescoLaparelli from Cortona inTuscany, with the aidofthe.
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... from Cortona inTuscany, with the aidofthe veterangeneral Gabrio Serbelloni of Milan. While their first estimates called for345,000 man-days to completethe project, the ramparts required 4,000 men working continually fortwo years, or ...
... from Cortona inTuscany, with the aidofthe veterangeneral Gabrio Serbelloni of Milan. While their first estimates called for345,000 man-days to completethe project, the ramparts required 4,000 men working continually fortwo years, or ...
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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