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Mercenary Swedes

Author : Svante Norrhem
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9188909034
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Mercenary Swedes written by Svante Norrhem and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred years ago, France persuaded Sweden to fight on its side against Germany in the war between Protestant and Catholic states. Rather than some lofty purpose, what convinced Sweden was money. Under the 1631 agreement, Sweden received French subsidies to the tune of 400,000 riksdaler a year for five years. This was only the first in a long line of subsidy agreements between the countries. Sweden enjoyed French largesse for no fewer than 166 years. In this wide-ranging international study, Svante Norrhem traces the patterns of cooperation between the two countries. With his unique command of the archival material, he discusses the reasons for the agreements and the mutual dependency that resulted.

Mercenary Swedes

Author : Svante Norrhem
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9188661830
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Mercenary Swedes written by Svante Norrhem and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1630s, France persuaded Sweden to fight on its side against the Holy Roman Emperor in the vicious, prolonged war between Protestant and Catholic states. Both countries goal was to limit the Empire's expansion, and the Swedes needed funds. Under the 1631 agreement, Sweden received French subsidies of about 400,000 Swedish riksdaler every year for five years a vast sum. This agreement was the first in a long line of deals between France and Sweden until 1796, which meant 166 years of intermittent support. In some years French subsidies amounted to a startling 20 per cent of the Swedish national budget. But how did the two countries manage to remain allies despite their abiding mutual mistrust? The historian Svante Norrhem charts the patterns of relations between the two countries in this wide-ranging study. With his skilful command of the international archival material he examines the reasons for the pact and the mutual dependency it led to. Norrhem discusses the motives and effects of the French subsidies. What about Sweden's honour, for example? To be so dependent on another state could signal that it was less than scrupulous In the end, the collaboration also had a profound impact on the Swedish state and society, and to some extent on France politics, territory and reputation were all at stake.

The Modern Mercenary

Author : Sean McFate
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621087
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Mercenary written by Sean McFate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean McFate lays bare the opaque world of private military contractors, explaining the economic structure of the industry and showing in detail how firms operate on the ground. As a former paratrooper and private military contractor, McFate provides an unparalleled perspective into the nuts and bolts of the industry, as well as a sobering prognosis for the future of war.

The Anglo-Swedish Alliance Against Napoleonic France

Author : C. Jorgensen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287743
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Swedish Alliance Against Napoleonic France written by C. Jorgensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study by Christer Jorgensen addresses a much neglected field of study in the history of Scandinavia and the greater Baltic region during the Napoleonic Age. The book concentrates upon relations and the alliance between Britain and Sweden during the middle years of the war; years that encompassed the Austerlitz campaign, the complicated diplomatic talks between the allies, Russia's abandonment of the allied cause at Tilsit (1807), the Russo-Swedish War (1808-09) that decided the fate of Finland, the capitulation of the Gibraltar of the North, and finally the turbulent politics of Sweden during and after the coup of March 1809.

Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630–1632

Author : Lars Ericson Wolke
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526749629
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630–1632 written by Lars Ericson Wolke and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of the Swedish king and military commander who conquered much of Germany in the early seventeenth century. As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century, Gustavus Adophus, king of Sweden, played a vital role in defending the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years War. In the space of two years—between 1630 and 1632—he turned the course of the war, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld and conquering large parts of Germany. Yet remarkably little has been written about him in English, and no full account of his extraordinary career has been published in recent times. That is why this perceptive and scholarly study is of such value. The book sets Gustavus in the context of Swedish and European dynastic politics and religious conflict in the early seventeenth century, and describes in detail Swedish military organization and Gustavus’s reforms. His intervention in the Thirty Years War is covered in graphic detail—the decision to intervene, his alliance with France, his campaigns across the breadth of Germany, and his generalship at the two major battles he fought there. His exceptional skill as a battlefield commander transformed the fortunes of the Protestant side in the conflict, and he had established himself as a major European figure before his death on the battlefield. Lars Ericson Wolke, one of the leading experts on the military history of the Baltic and the Thirty Years War, offers a fascinating insight into Gustavus the man and the soldier.

Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Adam Grimshaw
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004549773
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century written by Adam Grimshaw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to analyse the relationship between England and Sweden across the entire seventeenth century. It emphasises the importance of commerce and diplomacy working in tandem. The book contains five chapters arranged chronologically, all based on original and innovative archival research, and traces the economic aspects of the relationship in both a qualitative and quantitative context. It draws upon a number of unique incidents to detail the variety and extent of commercial and diplomatic connections that became of primary importance for the welfare and success of both nations over the century.

Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483364666
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies written by Alan Axelrod and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercenaries have been active in battle from the beginning of military history and, as private armies and military support firms, they are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation—all are outsourced to a greater or lesser degree in the U.S. military. However, privatization is not a uniquely American phenomenon. Countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia and Australia rely on privatization in one form or another. Historically, heads of state, politicians, and other administrators have justified use of mercenaries on the basis of their effectiveness, and cost-savings. These reasons and others continue to serve as rationales for use of private military companies in military strategy. Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies provides a comprehensive survey and guide to mercenary forces, entrepreneurs, and corporations active on the international military scene today, including a concise history of mercenaries and private armies on land, sea, and in the air. Narrative chapters are amply supplemented by sidebars including biographies of major figures, key statistics, historical and current documents, contracts, and legislation on private armies and outsourced military services. Each chapter includes a bibliography of books, journal articles, and web sites, and a general bibliography concludes the entire work.

Beyond the Military Revolution

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307734
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Military Revolution written by Jeremy Black and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. Genuinely global in range, this up-to-date and wide-ranging account provides fresh historiographical insights into this crucial period in world history.

Mercenaries and Paid Men

Author : John France
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047432614
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries and Paid Men written by John France and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercenaries have always had a poor press. Theirs is one of the world's oldest professions, but the very word has profoundly negative connotations of infidelity and ruthlessness. But were they so different from soldiers? Why, in any case, were they so omnipresent in the warfare of the medieval and early modern period? What kind of men became mercenaries and where did they come from? These are some of the questions which the essays in this volume address. Contributors are: Richard Abels, Bernard Bachrach, David Bachrach, Adrian Bell,Charles Bowlus, David Crouch, Guido Dall'Oro, Kelly Devries, Sven Ekdahl, John Hosler, John Law, Alan Murray, Stephen Morillo, Laura Napran, Eljas Oksanen, Carlos Andrez Gonzalez Paz, Ciaran Og O'Reilly, Muriosa Prendergast, Nicolas Prouteau, John Pryor, Ifor Rowlands, Spencer Smith.

Warrior Kings of Sweden

Author : Gary Dean Peterson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604118
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Warrior Kings of Sweden written by Gary Dean Peterson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. But the history of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and Prussia is largely neglected in American classrooms and scholarship. This book fills a large void in European history as it is generally presented to the American student and reader. This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718) and the warrior-kings who governed that age. It chronologically describes the political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion, including the exploration and colonization of the New World. The story traces history through the reigns of Sweden's ambitious rulers, beginning with the presumably Swedish Goths who ravaged the Roman Empire in the 2nd century CE and continuing through the end of the empire in the early eighteenth century. A thorough epilogue documents the cultural flowering in the arts and sciences that commenced in the Age of Greatness and continued to blossom in the centuries that followed. This final section of the book pays special attention to the personalities that drove Sweden's far-reaching cultural progress.

Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country

Author : Henry Brooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country written by Henry Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The English and American Stage

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The English and American Stage written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Collection of the Pieces Formerly Published by Henry Brooke, Esq

Author : Henry Brooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Collection of the Pieces Formerly Published by Henry Brooke, Esq written by Henry Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke, Esq. ...

Author : Henry Brooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke, Esq. ... written by Henry Brooke and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647274X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts, the book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of the many thousands of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers.

Thirty Years' War, 1618 To 1648

Author : André Geraque Kiffer
Publisher : Clube de Autores
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirty Years' War, 1618 To 1648 written by André Geraque Kiffer and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians still argue about the reasons for the bohemian (Czech) Wallenstein during the war. Some see him as a German patriot, others as a great mercenary. He did not have Gustavo Adolfo s tactical genius, but he was a very skilled mobilizer and strategist. What if he really had the potential to be a German Napoleon , uniting Germany under his rule and neutralizing, at least during his lifetime, the imperial influence of the Habsburgs. In this simulation, of course, he will not be murdered.

Early Modern European Diplomacy

Author : Dorothée Goetze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110672006
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern European Diplomacy written by Dorothée Goetze and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Diplomatic History has turned into one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research – especially with regard to early modern history. It has shown that diplomacy was not as homogenous as previously thought. On the contrary, it was shaped by a multitude of actors, practices and places. The handbook aims to characterise these different manifestations of diplomacy and to contextualise them within ongoing scientific debates. It brings together scholars from different disciplines and historiographical traditions. The handbook deliberately focuses on European diplomacy – although non-European areas are taken into account for future research – in order to limit the framework and ensure precise definitions of diplomacy and its manifestations. This must be the prerequisite for potential future global historical perspectives including both the non-European and the European world.