The Patterns of War Through the Eighteenth Century

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Indiana University Press, 1990 - 161 pages
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"... a concise, highly readable survey of pre- 19th-century warfare." —Choice

"A remarkable tour de force covering a vast span of time, different cultures, warfare by land and sea." —Gunther Rothenberg

A history of war and warfare from ancient to early modern times, Larry Addington's new book completes his survey of the patterns of war in the Western world. It explains not only what happened in warfare but why war in a certain time and culture took on distinct and recognizable patterns.

 

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TWO War in the Age of Rome
26
THREE War in the Middle Ages
47
FIVE War under Sail and European Overseas Expansion
100
EPILOGUE
144
INDEX
155
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Page 101 - ... decaying every year. Besides . they are less nimble, less mainable and very seldom employed. Grande navio grande fatiga, saith the Spaniard. A ship of 600 tons will carry as good ordnance as a ship of 1,200 tons ; and though the greater have double her number, the lesser will turn her broadsides twice before the greater can wind once.
Page 109 - Amsterdam in 1664 and renamed it New York in honor of the Duke of York, the Royal Navy's Lord High Admiral.
Page 25 - Hence the wise general sees to it that his troops feed on the enemy, for one bushel of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of his; one hundredweight of enemy fodder to twenty hundredweight of his.
Page 94 - The War of the Spanish Succession The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was the second war that engulfed Europe, but which was also a global conflict.
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Page 63 - Templars eventually expanded their duties to include the recitation of canonical offices in the church of the Temple at Jerusalem...

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