Militares

During the 17th century, Europe experienced only four years of general peace: 1610 and 1680-82. This scenario of almost continuous strife provided the terrain for the rise of the standing professional armies. The states were eager to avoid a repetition of the chaos and destruction that had plagued (...)

Si hubiésemos podido contemplar con nuestros propios ojos los acontecimientos históricos que han marcado el presente estaríamos más cerca de comprender la experiencia de haber sido uno más de sus protagonistas. Sangre en la frente. La Guerra Civil en color propone regresar al conflicto que marcó el (...)

In autumn 1621, at a fortified camp near Khotyn (Chocim), in the Principality of Moldavia, allied Polish, Lithuanian and Cossack armies faced a large Ottoman army led by Sultan Osman II. It was the concluding act of a war that had started with the defeat of a Polish army at Cecora one year earlier. (...)

Ireland at the outset of the Tudor era was a highly militarized society, with more than sixty Gaelic lordships maintaining independent armed forces. By the 1540s, the centralizing Tudor state had ended the self-rule enjoyed by the Anglo-Irish Pale and was embarked on an increasingly severe program (...)

This book describes and analyses the Manchu, or Qing, army in all its aspects. The emphasis lies on the Qing army in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, because this is the time when the Manchu military system developed its own characteristics and reached maturity. Furthermore, having (...)

In 1632, the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) took another turn. Gustavus Adolphus's triumphal campaign in the Holy Roman Empire was halted at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, where the Imperial-Leaguist Generalleutnant Tilly died of wounds received in the battle Rain am Lech. The former commander of the Imperial (...)

Details the structure, tactics, and equipment of his forces, with battle analyses and scholarly insights.The Army of Alexander the Great provides a comprehensive account of the army with which Alexander conquered the Persian Empire. It details the organisation, equipment, appearance, drill and (...)

A set of miniature wargame rules that lets players command armies from Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and India, spanning the Renaissance and shaping the future of empires.Renatio et Gloriam is a set of tabletop miniature rules that allows you to fight largescale battles from the Renaissance. (...)