The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
(^112) Chapter Three of production and small-scale trading still could flourish, since confis catory purchase or outright seizu ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 113 had manifested itself clearly and unmistakably from the fourteenth century onward, ...
114 Chapter Three Dozens of other refuges for entrepreneurs were scattered across the face of Europe, thanks to its peculiarly f ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000—1600 115 sustained by the preservation of primary patterns of human interac tion. Obedience ...
116 Chapter Three expansion of market relationships and their gradual penetration into remoter regions and further down the soci ...
4 Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 The effectiveness of commercial ized war as developed in Mediterranean Europe betw ...
118 Chapter Four Geographical Spread As we saw in chapter 3, commercial-bureaucratic management of armed force originated in Ita ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 119 The German situation differed from the earlier Italian experience in one importan ...
120 Chapter Four expel the English from the land (1453), a German emperor could also attempt, by leading a crusade either agains ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 121 plied by improved taxation, outright plunder, and massive market transactions. Wa ...
(^122) Chapter Four perhaps have become the chrysalis of a new German state, greater even than the mighty kingdom of France that ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 123 practice and handed his business to his heirs, whereas DeWitte left nothing but t ...
(^124) Chapter Four forms of combat were able to maneuver in the face of an enemy. By responding to the general’s command they c ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1730 125 France between 1648 and 1653 made a strong impression on young Louis. His standin ...
126 Chapter Four Close Order Marching as Practiced in the Eighteenth Century To march well and deploy large numbers of men swift ...
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128 Chapter Four university man, trained in mathematics and classics. Confronted by the problem of fighting the Spaniards in the ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 129 his predecessors in being far more systematic. He analyzed the rather complicated ...
(^130) Chapter Four the maniples of the Roman legion. Battalions of 550 men, further subdivided into companies and platoons, mad ...
Advances in Europe’s Art of War, 1600–1750 131 Moreover, such drill, repeated day in and day out, had another important dimensio ...
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