The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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Page 40
... troops across various frontiers in 1635. For years beforehand , France had been the tacit , indirect leader of the anti- Habsburg coalition , sending subsidies to all who would fight the impe- rial and Spanish forces . Now the conflict ...
... troops across various frontiers in 1635. For years beforehand , France had been the tacit , indirect leader of the anti- Habsburg coalition , sending subsidies to all who would fight the impe- rial and Spanish forces . Now the conflict ...
Page 136
... troops raised from within the pre - 1789 French borders were in a decided minority during the Russian cam- paign . This may not have mattered in the early , successful stages , but it did become important during the retreat , when men ...
... troops raised from within the pre - 1789 French borders were in a decided minority during the Russian cam- paign . This may not have mattered in the early , successful stages , but it did become important during the retreat , when men ...
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... troops in the north . The early cam- paigning in the Danubian principalities , and the far greater danger that Austria would turn its threats of intervention into reality , posed a danger to Bessarabia , the western Ukraine , and ...
... troops in the north . The early cam- paigning in the Danubian principalities , and the far greater danger that Austria would turn its threats of intervention into reality , posed a danger to Bessarabia , the western Ukraine , and ...
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