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The Loss of Cyprus [1564–1570] II
Map of the Siege of Nicosia, by Giovanni Camoccio, 1574 In 1570 Venice had held Cyprus for eighty-one years. Queen Caterina had been replaced by a Venetian governor, with the title of Lieutenant: in him and his two Counsellors – the three together, known as the Rectors, were the Cypriot equivalent of the Signoria – rested in effect virtually all…
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The Polish Succession: 1733–1739 – In Italy
Battle of Guastalla In February 1733, Augustus of Saxony, king of Poland, died. Poland was an elective monarchy and both Louis XV of France and Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, proposed their own candidates. Vienna supported Augustus III, the elector of Saxony; Versailles wanted a former king of Poland, Stanislas…
The War in Italy 1635–42
French intervention in Italy trespassed on the emperor’s jurisdiction and disturbed the balance established by the Peace of Cherasco in 1631. In keeping with Richelieu’s general strategy, the attack on Spain’s possessions was not made alone, but in partnership with Italian princes. Known as the League of Rivoli, this alliance…
France and the Italian Wars – Louis XII
Battle of Fornovo In the period 1490-1560, France was actively at war for around 42 years. 13 Such a military effort needs explanation, which is partly the theme of this book. As an introduction to this analysis, though, a degree of narrative is necessary in order for the problems to…
Italian Army at Derna 1941
The Italian Supreme Command moved quickly to organize the “Special Armoured Brigade” (Brigata Corazzato Speciale, or BCS) consisting of fifty-five M13/40 tanks, artillery pieces, and supported by infantry formations specializing in the anti-tank role and sappers equipped with anti-tank mines. In hardly more than a month, the Italians dispatched this…
Taranto Air Attack (1940)
Further proof that the Axis Powers were prepared to widen the war even more came with the signing of the Tripartite Pact linking them with Japan in late September and reports of a meeting held between Hitler and the Spanish Caudillo Francisco Franco at Hendaye in the Pyrenees on 23…
French and Italian Navies in WWI
Goeben and the Breslau MAS boats-fast motor torpedo boats. Italian Torpedo Boat MAS 15 racing away from the already dramatically listing Austrian battleship Szent István on 10 June, 1918. The Italian decision to remain neutral on the outbreak of the war, based on the strictly defensive nature of the Triple…