HIST 2101H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tercio, Anglo-Dutch Wars, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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18th century: anitheical to state formaion founded on control and naional armies, mercenaries outside the bounds of the state. Independent actors and unreliable: violent and foreign b, outside the bounds of the state, presence in most early modern armies. Niccolo machiavelli and the art of war (1521) Ii: his only book published during his life ime. Served florence from 1498-1512: devoted his energy to defence. Pisan campaign of 1503, a failure: 2000 rural miliia as an auxiliary to 3500 mercenaries, poliical and military theorist, drating the ordinanza (1506) 10,000 men, raised from the contado: ages 18-50, supposed to be eligible, focus was on people outside the walls of florence. Oicers would be men of good standing from florence: based on the german landskaneche. This was to be a miliia, not a standing army: places could not yet aford to keep standing armies.