This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746

This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746 / Charles Carlton.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often--and most bloodily--against each other. The almost continuous fighting on...

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Main Author: Carlton, Charles, 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
1485-1799
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Great Britain > History, Military > 1485-1603.
Great Britain > History, Military > 1603-1714.
Great Britain > History, Military > 18th century.
Great Britain
Military history
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Table of Contents:
  • Early Tudor warfare, 1485-1558
  • Give me spirit : joining and training
  • This happy breed of men : Elizabethan warfare, 1558-1603
  • Why men fought
  • Those were golden days : early Stuart warfare, 1603-1639
  • Low intensity combat : campaigning
  • All diseas'd : civil wars and commonwealth : events, 1638-1660
  • Talk you of killing : civil wars and commonwealth : impact, 1638-1660
  • High intensity combat : battles and sieges
  • Restoration to glorious revolution, 1660-1688
  • The peril of the waters : war at sea
  • Let slip the dogs of war : after the Glorious Revolution : 1688-1746
  • The hurlyburly's done : the aftermath of combat.

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