Download or read book Revival A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century 1937 written by Charles, Sir. Oman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning of the time period concerned, we are still in the Middle Ages – Flodden Field or Novara might almost have been fought in the fifteenth century. At the end a formal battle like Nieuport might almost have been fought in the Thirty Years War. This volume is the result of an attempt to sum up the fundamental alterations in the Art of War between 1494 and 1600, and is intended to serve as an outline of military theory and practice between those dates.
Download or read book Revival a History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century 1937 written by Charles Oman, Sir and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning of the time period concerned, we are still in the Middle Ages - Flodden Field or Novara might almost have been fought in the fifteenth century. At the end a formal battle like Nieuport might almost have been fought in the Thirty Years War. This volume is the result of an attempt to sum up the fundamental alterations in the Art of War between 1494 and 1600, and is intended to serve as an outline of military theory and practice between those dates.
Download or read book A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century written by Sir Charles Oman and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BEST ACCOUNT OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE BY THE AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR This is an unrivalled account of sixteenth-century warfare, in which Sir Charles Oman traces the dramatic, far-reaching changes in the military strategy, tactics and organization of the period. Showing how warfare developed, he covers the Great Wars of 1949-1559; military events in Tudor England, including Henry VIII’s continental wars; the French Wars of Religion, 1562-98; the Dutch revolt and war of independence, 1568-1603; and the Turkish offensive against Christendom, from 1520 until the Peace of Sitva Torok in 1606. The battles, sieges and campaigns that Oman examines in detail clarify military development across the century, such as Ravenna (1512), the first battle won by dominance in artillery; Pavia (1525), a ‘victory by surprise’; Pinkie (1547), where an old-fashioned infantry army proved helpless against the combination of all arms; and Arques (1589), exemplifying the defence of a defile by very inferior number. Contemporary maps illustrate many of the actions, and add to the value of this brilliant and lucid history of the art of war. Sir Charles Oman was one of Britain’s foremost historians and a gifted writer. His books, noted for being both scholarly and accessible, include the two-volume History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages, the seven-volume A History of the Peninsular War and others.
Download or read book The Modern World System I written by Immanuel Wallerstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Modern World System", Immanuel Wallerstein's influential multivolume reinterpretation of global history, traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book A Manual of Siegecraft and Fortification written by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban and published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engelsk oversættelse 1968 ved G.A. Rothrock af Vaubans i 1669 på Krigsminister Louvois opfordring skrevne værk "Mémoire sur la Conduite des Sièges" som første gang tryktes i Leiden 1740 under titlen "Mémoire pour servir d'Instruction dans la Conduite des Siéges et dans la Défense des Places"--Se yderligere under denne udgave.
Download or read book An Apprenticeship in Arms written by Roger B. Manning and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, An Apprenticeship in Arms is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe, as well as the ordinary men who were impressed to serve in the ranks from the time of the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. Thisapprenticeship in arms exposed these men to the technological innovations of the military revolution, laid the foundations for a fledgling professional officer class based upon merit and established a fund of military expertise. This remilitarization of aristocratic culture and society was completed by 1640, andprovided numerous experienced military officers for the various armies of the civil wars and, subsequently, for the embryonic British army after William III invaded and conquered the British Isles and committed the Three Kingdoms to the armed struggle against Louis XIV during the Nine Years War.Conflicts between amateur aristocrats and so-called 'soldiers of fortune' led to continuing debates about the relative merits of standing armies and a select militia; the individual pursuit of honour and glory by such amateurs also obscured the more rational military and political objectives of the modern state, subverted military discipline, and delayed the process of the professionalization of the officer corps of the British army.
Download or read book The Mainstream of Civilization to 1715 written by Stanley Chodorow and published by Harcourt Brace College Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the world's major civilizations, discussing their special characteristics and contributions.
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Download or read book A History of the Art of War the Middle Ages from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century written by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...between the four corps in their line of battle were growing greater. This was necessarily the case when they marched out from a comparatively narrow position into a wide plain whose whole breadth was held by the enemy. When they began to extend their front to make it equal to that of the Turks, each step farther forward brought about a wider separation between the centre and the wings. This was a disastrous fact for the Franks, whose main chance of victory lay in their being able to keep a well closed-up line. In the actual fighting, as we shall see, this was so far from being the case that three separate engagements were fought by the left wing, the right wing, and the two centre divisions. The first contact occurred in the northern part of the field, where the Master of, the Templars faced the Syrian contingents of Taki-ed-din. After a few minutes the Infidels began to give ground: JBpna-ed-din assures us that the movement was voluntary, and that the Prince of Emesa was desirous of drawing away the Christian left wing from the main body by his retreat. Whether this was so or not, it is at any rate certain that Saladin, seeing his right wing retiring, sent to its aid heavy reinforcements from.his centre. These succours enabled the Syrians to retake the offensive, and the Templars had to re-form their line on a hill lying toward the sea (probably the rising ground now known as Kisr-el-Hammar). Here the battle stood still for some time without marked success on one side or the other. Meanwhile, Saladin's despatch of troops from his centre towards his right had been observed by the Franks, and the 1189 ACRE: THE FRANKS ROUTED 535 two central divisions of the Christian host, led by Conrad of Montferrat and Lewis of Thuringia, delivered a..
Download or read book History of the Art of War written by Hans Delbrück and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gorges of Plymouth Fort written by Richard A. Preston and published by Totonto : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1953 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferdinando Gorges was born in Ashton Phillips, Somerset, England in about 1565. He is called the "Father of English Colonization in North America". He was an early English colonial entrepreneur who founded of the Province of Maine in 1622, although he himself never set foot in the New World. He married four times and had four children by his first wife, Ann Bell. He died in 1647 in England.
Download or read book Marching Through Chaos written by John A. English and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-12-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the outcome of the Cold War, English argues persuasively here that the nuclear defensive posture adopted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was inherently flawed. Victory in the Cold War, moreover, seems to have increased the attractiveness of this potentially dangerous model. In fact, NATO's attempts to replace conventional armies with nuclear technology represented a misreading of history inasmuch as war has always been more of a social than technological phenomenon. From his succinct survey of the growth and operations of field armies from medieval times to the Gulf War, English concludes that the legitimately constituted conventional army of the nation-state still remains the best instrument for bringing some semblance of order to the destructive chaos of war. The development of field armies has involved much more sophistication than generally supposed. In both practice and theory, army operations have been as knowledge-based and intellectually rigorous as any academic discipline, ensuring them an enduring place as a practical means of applying massive force. Fortunately, the NATO attempt to replace conventional armies with nuclear technology was never tested in a real war. But English suggests that the likelihood of deterrence continuing in war, because of its transmutability, also offers hope that it can be controlled in the future, as it was in the past, by social forces. This book offers a longer, more realistic view of war than that normally embraced by technocrats in search of better weapons and peacemakers in search of utopia. This book also addresses in detail the questions of why armies became so large and why war itself transmutated. The technological transformation of war that occurred after 1815 is discussed, in turn, for the effect it exerted upon the future operations of armies. A novel perspective on the tactical and operational progression of warfighting up to the end of World War II is also provided through an examination of modern defensive theory. On a more elevated plane, the book critically assesses the ways in which nuclear deterrence ultimately affected NATO's defensive posture in central Europe. Also subjected to detailed scrutiny are the theoretical and practical dimensions of ground force concepts for the defense of the NATO central front. Finally, English evaluates ground force operations in the Gulf War with a view to drawing relevant conclusions and lessons for the future.
Download or read book The Mainstream of Civilization written by Stanley Chodorow and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the world's major civilizations, discussing their special characteristics and contributions.
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Download or read book A History of the Art of War written by Charles Oman and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
Download or read book History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political History The Middle Ages written by Hans Delbrück and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political HistorY written by Hans Delbrück and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thirds of a century after it first appeared, this last volume of Delbruck's fundamental work on military history has been translated into English. The work remains essential for the history of European warfare. Choice
