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warfare and Italy
However, the ten years of bloody warfare conducted by Albornoz accomplished very little to secure the pacification of Italy for now four mercenary companies roved through Italy spreading further bloodshed and strife.
He was soon crowned emperor in Italy, but decades of warfare on the peninsula yielded scant results.
After more than four years of trench warfare in western Europe, and 20 million dead, those powers who had formed the Triple Entente ( France, Britain, and Russia, later replaced by the United States and joined by Italy ) emerged victorious over the Central Powers ( Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire ).
In 1331 he gained some experience of warfare in Italy with his father.
Educated principally in Italy, he gained some experience of warfare during the campaign of his paternal uncle Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor against France in 1544, and also during the War of the league of Schmalkalden, and soon began to take part in imperial business.
Decius ' campaign fits within the larger pattern of Roman warfare in south-east Italy, he might even have wintered in Apulia.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Italy was at the forefront of aerial warfare: during the colonization of Libya in 1911, it made the first reconnaissance flight in history on 23 October, and the first ever bombing raid on 1 November.
The London Naval Treaty was an agreement between the United Kingdom, the Empire of Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on April 22, 1930, which regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding.
Reza Shah also purchased ships from Italy and hired Italians to teach his troops the intricacies of naval warfare.
World War I motivated extensive use of military tramways for warfare between Italy and Austria.
Not all Kings of the Romans made this step, sometimes because of hostile relations to the current Pope, at other times because the pressure of business at home, or warfare in Germany or Italy, made it impossible for the King to make the journey.
However, with the Bubonic Plague in 1348, the birth of the English woolen industry and general warfare, Italy temporarily lost its economic advantage.
The formation of his force of volunteers in Uruguay, his mastery of the techniques of guerilla warfare, his opposition to the Emperor of Brazil and Argentine territorial ambitions ( perceived by liberals as also imperialist ), and his victories in the battles of Cerro and Sant ' Antonio in 1846 that assured the independence of Uruguay, made Garibaldi and his followers heroes in Italy and Europe.
Coningham had great experience of the type of operations required for supporting fast moving ground warfare due to his command of the Desert Air Force in North Africa and Italy.
* February 3 – A United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft of Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 ( VMAQ-2 ) ( VMAQ-2 ) strikes a cable supporting the aerial tramway at Cavalese, Italy, causing one of the tramways cars to plunge over 80 meters ( 262 feet ) to the ground, killing all 20 people in the car.
The Royal Navy intended to deploy the SAMPSON MFR on its version of the Horizon CNGF-a collaboration with France and Italy to produce anti-air warfare frigates.
During the course of the war, seaborne aircraft were used in fleet actions at sea ( Battle of Midway, Bismarck ), pre-emptive strikes against naval units in port ( Battle of Taranto, Attack on Pearl Harbor ), support of ground forces ( Battle of Okinawa, Allied invasion of Italy ) and anti-submarine warfare ( the Battle of the Atlantic ).
While lasting less than 50 years, some scholars have argued that the Treaty provided a proto-Westphalian model of an inter-city-state system ( as opposed to an inter-nation-state system ) following a century of incessant warfare in Northern Italy.
The eastern half of the Empire, now centred on Constantinople, invaded Italy in the early 6th century, and the generals of emperor Justinian, Belisarius and Narses, conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom after years of warfare, ending in 552.
Nor had Mussolini taken into consideration the recommendations of the Italian Commission of War Production, which had warned that Italy would not be able to sustain a full year of continuous warfare until 1949.
Though Rome relied on resources from its many provinces acquired through conquest and warfare, wealthy Romans developed the land in Italy to produce a variety of crops.
: The United Kingdom, United States, Italy and Japan sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and shipbuilding.

warfare and led
During the 19th century, the development of mines led to a new type of naval warfare.
In eastern Europe, Russia, and out onto the steppes, cavalry remained important much longer and dominated the scene of warfare until the early 17th century and even beyond, as the strategic mobility of cavalry was crucial for the semi-nomadic pastoralist lives that many steppe cultures led.
In an era characterized by almost endless warfare, he led his armies as king from 1611 ( at age 17 ) until his death in battle in 1632 while leading a charge — as Sweden rose from the status of a mere regional power and run-of-the-mill kingdom to one of the great powers of Europe and a model of early modern era government.
* The 1965 novel Dune features such warfare as conducted against House Harkonnen by the nomadic Fremen tribe, led by Paul Atreides.
While there was no separate Polish state at all, the idea of Polish independence was kept alive throughout the 19th century and led to more Polish uprisings and other warfare against the partitioning powers.
After the liner Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, drowning over 100 American passengers, protests by the United States led Germany to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare.
The advent of gunpowder and the acceleration of technological advances led to modern warfare.
The intense urban warfare in densely populated Gaza combined with the use of heavy firepower by the Israeli side and the intensified Hamas rocket attacks towards populated Israeli civilian targets led to a high toll on the Palestinian side and among civilians .</ small >
In Europe, political strife and territorial disputes led to widespread warfare around the continent.
Songhai was also weakened by internal discord, which led to factional warfare.
The industrial revolution led to the increasing mechanisation of warfare, as well as rapid advances in the development of firearms ; the increased potential of devastation ( which was seen in the battlefields of World War I ) led to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia calling together the leaders of 26 nations for the First Hague Conference in 1899.
The Conference led to the signing of the Hague Convention ( of 1899 ) that led to rules of declaring and conducting warfare as well as the use of modern weaponry, and also led to the setting up of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
The Jurchen Jin Dynasty continually battled with the Song in the region between the Huai River and the Yellow River ; this warfare led to the dilapidation of the canal until the Mongols invaded in the 13th century and began necessary repairs.
* Suriname, constant guerrilla warfare by Maroons, in 1765-1793 by the Aluku led by Boni
Given the type of warfare that had been carried out in the conflict — wherein highly mobile groups of soldiers and rebels continued to move to and from on the desert terrain, retreating at a time and then suddenly attacking to regain control of small towns and villages in the Eastern rebel held parts of Libya — had led to the technical becoming a vehicle of choice for both sides.
Although inexperienced in sea battles, the Romans, led by consul Gaius Duilius Nepos, heavily defeat the Carthaginian fleet, mainly due to the innovative use of land tactics in naval warfare ( including the use of the grappling irons and the corvus boarding bridge ).
The hostility between the British and Native Americans after the French and Indian War led to one of the first documented attempts at biological warfare in North American history.
Livy mentions that the Latini were led and governed in warfare by two of them and the Samnites by one.
The rise of Athens and Sparta as pre-eminent powers during this conflict led directly to the Peloponnesian War, which saw further development of the nature of warfare, strategy and tactics.
He lived in a period of warfare and Danish expansion, led by Archbishop Absalon and the Valdemars.

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