Gabriele Esposito

Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2) (eBook, PDF)

Papal States, Minor States & Volunteers
Illustrator: Rava, Giuseppe

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an independent Kingdom of Italy emerged. These conflicts saw foreign interventions and shifting alliances among minor states, and attracted a variety of local and foreign volunteers.

This second volume in a two part series covers the armies of the Papal States; the duchies of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena; the republics of Rome and San Marco (Venice) and the transitional Kingdom of Sicily; and the various volunteer movements. These varied armies and militias wore a wide variety of highly colourful uniforms which are brought to life in stunning, specially commissioned, full colour artwork from Giuseppe Rava.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472826213
• Artikelnr.: 55001511

Autorenporträt

GABRIELE ESPOSITO is a professor of modern history, a freelance researcher and an author of military history books, specializing in uniformology. His interests range from ancient civilizations to modern postcolonial conflicts including 19th-century Italian, Spanish and Latin American wars. His books and essays have been published by Pen & Sword, Winged Hussar and Libreria Editrice Goriziana and he contributes to a variety of specialist military-history journals. He has written various titles for Osprey including MAA 499 Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70 and MAA 541 Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688-97.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: overview of 'Second War of Independence' (1859); Garibaldi's rising in the South (1860); events of 1861-66; and 'Third War of Independence' (1866-70)/ Chronology/ 1866 campaign: battle of Custoza
and naval clash off Lissa/ Conquest of Rome from Papal forces
1870/ The Papal army
1848-70: organization
uniforms
weapons
and tactical performance/ The minor states' armies
1848-70: organization
uniforms
weapons and tactical performance of forces of Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Duchy of Parma and Duchy of Modena/ Patriots and volunteers: organization
uniforms
weapons and tactical performance of Italian patriots and foreign volunteers
1848-70
particularly (1848-49) Roman Republic
San Marco Republic and Kingdom of Sicily
and (1848-61)
Garibaldi's Redshirts and others/ Select Bibliography/ Plate Commentaries.