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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Map List | |
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| Chronology of the Wars | |
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| Introduction Death of the 'Military Revolution' | |
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| The Thirty Years War 1618-48 | |
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| The Bohemian Revolt | |
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| The causes of the Thirty Years War | |
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| The Bohemian-Palatine War | |
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| Mercenaries and military enterprisers | |
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| The Danish War | |
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| Armies and their methods | |
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| Wallenstein | |
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| Gustavus Adolphus | |
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| The Swedish military system | |
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| Sweden's Baltic Wars | |
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| Swedish campaigns in Germany | |
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| Depredations and devastation | |
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| The Franco-Spanish War | |
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| The Peace of Westphalia | |
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| The Rise of the Standing Army 1648-1700 | |
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| Standing armies in France, Germany, Denmark, England, Russia, Italy, the Holy Roman Empire and Poland | |
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| Recruitment | |
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| Conscription | |
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| Mercenaries | |
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| Training | |
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| Officers | |
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| Uniforms | |
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| Weapons | |
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| Equipment | |
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| The costs of war and fortification | |
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| The Wars of the Mid Century | |
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| The Franco-Spanish War, 1648-59 | |
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| The Thirteen Years War, 1654-67 | |
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| The Second Northern War, 1655-60 | |
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| Civil wars in England, Ireland and Scotland | |
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| The Ottoman military system | |
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| The siege of Candia | |
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| The Austro-Turkish War, 1663-4 | |
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| The siege of Vienna, 1683 | |
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| The War of the Holy League | |
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| The Austro-Turkish War, 1683-99 | |
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| The Conduct of War 1650-1700 | |
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| The theatres of war | |
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| Strategic geography | |
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| Strategy | |
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| Logistics | |
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| Fortification | |
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| Siege warfare | |
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| Vauban | |
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| Supply | |
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| War finance | |
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| Weaponry | |
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| Formations and tactics | |
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| Infantry | |
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| Cavalry | |
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| Dragoons | |
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| Artillery | |
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| Command and control | |
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| Battle | |
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| The laws of war | |
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| The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-97 | |
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| The War of Devolution, 1667-8 | |
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| The Franco-Dutch War, 1672-8 | |
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| The campaigns of 1672 | |
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| The siege of Maastricht, 1673 | |
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| Turenne's Rhineland campaigns, 1674-5 | |
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| The Scanian War, 1674-9 | |
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| Les reunions | |
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| Devastation of the Palatinate, 1688-9 | |
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| The Nine Years War, 1688-97 | |
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| The siege of Namur, 1695 | |
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| Colonial warfare | |
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| Reflections | |
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| The pace and extent of military change in the seventeenth century | |
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| Glossary of military terminology | |
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| Biographical notes | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index | |
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| Picture credits | |