Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years’ War (2)

Author: Vladimir Brnardic
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781846039973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This history of the Catholic armies of the Habsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) explores the role of cavalry during the last major religious war in mainland Europe, which saw the end of the large mercenary forces and the beginnings of the well-disciplined national army. This book charts this progression, illustrating and explaining the forces of the key Catholic armies, while exploring the organization, tactics, and colorful uniforms of the cavalry forces as they were expertly wielded by the great captains of the period including Tilly, Condé and Gustavus.

Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years' War

Author: Vladimir Brnardic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years’ War (2)

Author: Vladimir Brnardic
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781846039973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years’ War (1)

Author: Vladimir Brnardic
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781846034473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This history of the Catholic armies of the Hapsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) explores the role of infantry and artillery during the last major religious war in mainland Europe. As the states of the Holy Roman Empire fractured along religious lines, all of Europe was plunged into a bloody conflict that lasted three decades, decimated populations, and annihilated communities. However, amidst this social, political, and religious catastrophe, important changes were experienced within the organization of armed forces. The war saw the end of the large mercenary forces and the beginnings of the well-disciplined national army. This book charts this progression, illustrating and explaining the forces of the key Catholic armies, while exploring the weapons, organization, tactics, and colorful uniforms used by the infantry and artillery.

History of the Thirty Years' War

Author: Antonín Gindely
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description

The Bavarian Army During the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648

Author: Laurence Spring
Publisher: Century of the Soldier
ISBN: 9781911512394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Machine generated contents note: 1. The Officer Corps -- 2. The Rank and File -- 3. Organisation -- 4. Clothing the Soldiers -- 5. Arming the Soldiers -- 6. Regimental Colours -- 7. Rations and Pay -- 8. Billeting the Soldiers -- 9. Tactics -- 10. Civilians and Soldiers -- 11. Death in the Army -- 12. Conclusion: Peace at Last -- Appendices -- I. Regiments of the Bavarian Army -- II. Captured Protestant Colours

The Thirty Years' War 1618–1648

Author: Richard Bonney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472810023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
More than three and a half centuries have passed since the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-48); but this most devastating of wars in the early modern period continues to capture the imagination of readers: this book reveals why. It was one of the first wars where contemporaries stressed the importance of atrocities, the horrors of the fighting and also the sufferings of the civilian population. The Thirty Years' War remains a conflict of key importance in the history of the development of warfare and the 'military revolution'.

German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650

Author: Thomas A. Brady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052188909X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497

Book Description
This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.

The Thirty Years War

Author: C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.

The Thirty Years War

Author: Peter Hamish Wilson
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674062310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1038

Book Description
Argues that religion was not the catalyst to the Thirty Years War, but one element in a mix of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict that ultimately transformed the map of the modern world.