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Book The Italian Wars Volume 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Massimo Predonzani
  • Publisher : Retinue to Regiment
  • Release : 2021-01-15
  • ISBN : 9781913118808
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The Italian Wars Volume 2 written by Massimo Predonzani and published by Retinue to Regiment. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the actions that followed the formation of the League of Cambrai in 1508.

Book 1509 by Country

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  • Author : Source Wikipedia
  • Publisher : University-Press.org
  • Release : 2013-09
  • ISBN : 9781230556994
  • Pages : 22 pages

Download or read book 1509 by Country written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: 1509 in France, 1509 in India, 1509 in Italy, Battle of Diu, Battle of Agnadello, Siege of Padua, Battle of Polesella. Excerpt: The Battle of Diu sometimes referred as the Second Battle of Chaul was a naval battle fought on February 3, 1509 in the Arabian Sea, near the port of Diu, India, between the Portuguese Empire and a joint fleet of the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamluk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Kozhikode with support of Ottomans, the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). The Portuguese victory was critical: Mamluks and Arabs retreated, easing the Portuguese strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean to route trade down the Cape of Good Hope, circumventing the traditional spice route controlled by the Arabs and the Venetians through the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. After the battle, Portugal rapidly captured key ports in the Indian Ocean like Goa, Ceylon, Malacca and Ormuz, crippling the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Gujarat Sultanate, greatly assisting the growth of the Portuguese Empire and setting its trade dominance for almost a century, until it was taken during the Dutch-Portuguese Wars and the Battle of Swally won by the British East India Company in 1612. It marks the beginning of the European colonialism in Asia. It also marks the spillover of the Christian-Islamic power struggle, in and around the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, into the Indian Ocean which was the most important region for international trade at the time. Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean around early 16th centurySince Vasco da Gama arrived in 1498, the Portuguese had been fighting Calicut while allying with its rival Kingdom of Cochin, where they established their headquarters. The northern region of Gujarat, mainly Khambhat, was even more important: the Gujarat Sultanate was an...

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Encyclopedia of Battles

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  • Author : David Eggenberger
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-03-08
  • ISBN : 0486142019
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Battles written by David Eggenberger and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A badly needed addition to public and military libraries and to the shelves of every military writer … a definitive job." — Army Times Megiddo, Thermopylae, Waterloo, Stalingrad, Vietnam … nothing has dominated man's attention, challenged his energy, produced more heroes — and destruction — than war. This monumental one-volume work traces the long history of that uniquely human activity in vivid, accurate accounts of over 1,500 crucial military conflicts, Spanning more than 3,400 years, it encompasses a panorama of warfare so complete that no single volume like it exists. All the essential details of every major battle in recorded history on land and at sea — from the first battle of Megiddo in 1479 B. C. to Grenada in 1984 — are covered. For added convenience, this work lists the engagements in alphabetical order, from "Aachen," the first entry, to "Zutphen," the last. You'll find painstakingly researched, objectively written descriptions of the Persia-Greek conflicts of the fifth century B. C., Roman Empire wars, Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, and many more. Also included are penetrating analyses of the roles played by commanders of genius — Alexander, Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Khalid ibn al-Walid, and other momentous figures. Updating this already comprehensive resource, a new Appendix deals with more recent conflicts: the Vietnam War, the Yom Kippur War, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq War, the Falkland Islands clash, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the U. S. invasion of Grenada. Each entry includes states, strategic situations, military leaders, troop numbers, tactics, casualties and military/political consequences of the battles. In addition, you'll find cross references at the end of each entry, 99 battle maps and a comprehensive index containing titles and alliances and treaties, famous quotations, slogans, catch phrases … even battle cries. An Encyclopedia of Battles is an entire library of military history in one convenient space-saving volume. Students, historians, writers, military buffs … anyone interested in the subject will find this inexpensive paperbound edition an indispensable reference and a fascinating study of the world's military past.

Book War and Society in Renaissance Europe  1450 1620

Download or read book War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450 1620 written by John Rigby Hale and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covering the years between the end of the Hundred Years War and the beginning of the Thirty Years War, this book explains the part played by war in the lives of individuals in the early modern phase of European history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Chronological Tables

Download or read book Chronological Tables written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Dates  Or  Treasury of Universal Reference      New and Revised Edition

Download or read book The Book of Dates Or Treasury of Universal Reference New and Revised Edition written by BOOK. and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy

Download or read book Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy written by Samuel K. Cohn Jr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy is the first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on over 100 contemporary chronicles and diaries, the fifty-eight volumes of Marin Sanudo's diplomatic dispatches, mercantile letters, and commentary, and 586 collective supplications scattered through archival sources from towns and villages in the Grand duchy of Milan, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. places these incidents and their patterns in comparative perspectives, first with the late medieval heyday of popular revolt and then with regions north of the Alps. Cohn finds new developments during the early modern period such as an increase in women rebels, mutinies of soldiers, and new tactics of revolts such as shop closures, peaceful demonstrations of strength, and use of religious processions for discussions of tactics and strategies for obtaining logistic advantage. At the same time, these protests show convergences with the medieval Italian past, with leaders coming almost exclusively from the ranks of nonelites, religious ideology playing a surprisingly minor role, and the majority of revolts centring overwhelming in towns and cities. Finally, this study demonstrates that democracies do not just die under the duress of military occupation and growing powers of autocratic regimes. Ideals of representation and equality not only persisted; they could emerge in new forms and with greater sophistication.

Book The Student s Handbook of Modern History  from the Commencement of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day  With a Sketch of the French Revolution by Henry  Lord Brougham

Download or read book The Student s Handbook of Modern History from the Commencement of the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day With a Sketch of the French Revolution by Henry Lord Brougham written by Samuel NEIL and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Italian Wars Volume 3

    Book Details:
  • Author : Massimo Predonzani
  • Publisher : Retinue to Regiment
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 9781914059667
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Italian Wars Volume 3 written by Massimo Predonzani and published by Retinue to Regiment. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pavia, 24th February 1525. In the dead of night, Spanish and German troops led by Charles de Bourbon launch a surprise attack against the French army that has been laying siege to Pavia of months.

Book The Universities of the Italian Renaissance

Download or read book The Universities of the Italian Renaissance written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time—including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei—the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution. In this magisterial study, noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy. Beginning with brief narratives of the origins and development of each university, Grendler explores such topics as the number of professors and their distribution by discipline, student enrollment (some estimates are the first attempted), famous faculty members, budget and salaries, and relations with civil authority. He discusses the timetable of lectures, student living, foreign students, the road to the doctorate, and the impact of the Counter Reformation. He shows in detail how humanism changed research and teaching, producing the medical Renaissance of anatomy and medical botany, new approaches to Aristotle, and mathematical innovation. Universities responded by creating new professorships and suppressing older ones. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats—including increased student violence and competition from religious schools—ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

Book History Uniforms 2 GB

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruno Mugnai
  • Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
  • Release : 2015-12-14
  • ISBN : 8893270080
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book History Uniforms 2 GB written by Bruno Mugnai and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book: Ancient and Medieval Chinese Warfare: Armies of the Qin Dynasty -The Battle of Agnadello 14th May 1509 - The Venetian Army and Navy in the Holy League War, 1684-99 (part three) - Italian Units of the British Army, 1806-1814 (part two) - Forgotten Fronts of WWI: German Micronesia.

Book A Global Chronology of Conflict  6 volumes

Download or read book A Global Chronology of Conflict 6 volumes written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 3127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental six-volume resource offers engaging entries of major diplomatic, military, and political events driving world conflicts from ancient times to the present. Now from ABC-CLIO, long regarded as a premier publisher of military history, comes a monumental resource that encapsulates the entire scope of conflict among human societies. Spanning nearly five millennia, from the earliest documented fighting to the present, A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, provides a comprehensive survey of major military events. With coverage that reaches beyond the battles, this work examines the political and diplomatic forces driving world conflicts, revolutions, forced changes of governments, international treaties, and acts of aggression and terrorism. Written by acclaimed military historian Spencer C. Tucker, these six chronologically organized volumes offer an accessible, richly detailed timeline of military conflict across human history. The concise entries cover all important events on the battlefield and in the corridors of power, with special features highlighting hundreds of key leaders and weapon systems. From specific data on casualties to coverage of evolving weapons technology to insightful analyses of the social impact of war, A Global Chronology of Conflict is an essential resource for students, researchers, history buffs, and general readers alike.

Book The Italian Wars 1494 1559

Download or read book The Italian Wars 1494 1559 written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian Wars of 1494-1559 had a major impact on the whole of Renaissance Europe. In this important text, Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw place the conflict within the political and economic context of the wars. Emphasising the gap between aims and strategies of the political masters and what their commanders and troops could actually accomplish on the ground, they analyse developments in military tactics and the tactical use of firearms and examine how Italians of all sectors of society reacted to the wars and the inevitable political and social change that they brought about. The history of Renaissance Italy is currently being radically rethought by historians. This book is a major contribution to this re-evaluation, and will be essential reading for all students of Renaissance and military history.

Book A School History of France

Download or read book A School History of France written by John Jacob Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Warfare to Wealth

Download or read book From Warfare to Wealth written by Mark Dincecco and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new way to think about long-run economic and political development that speaks to several fundamental debates.

Book The Italian Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Massimo Predonzani
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9781912866526
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Italian Wars written by Massimo Predonzani and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 July 1495 a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from Parma); shortly afterwards a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off a battle which changed warfare and represented the starting point of a raging conflict known as the Italian Wars. Francesco II Gonzaga, a brave commander and leader of the League, challenged the fury of the flooding Taro River in a clash against Charles VIII, a contemptuous king who ravaged the peninsula from Piedmont to Campania and spread terror wherever his terrible mercenaries set foot. This volume, The Italian Wars Volume 1. The expedition of Charles VIII into Italy and the Battle of Fornovo, offers an accurate analysis of every frantic stage of the battle. The reader will be transported into the heart of battle and exposed to the rumble of thunder and the clash of arms. They will see how the encounter wore out both sides, leading the opponents to an unclear resolution: both armies claimed victory. The text offers a detailed description of the composition of the armies, the weapons, and the armour, as well as of the heraldry borne by captains and shown on standards. Such analysis is based on the authors' research on Italian and French contemporary documents and pictures. Wonderful painted illustrations are shown on charts, thus delivering an immediate and clear overview of the men and the colours on the battlefield.