Wars of the Age of Louis XIV 1650-1715

Dominated by the ambitions of France''s King Louis XIV Europe in the years 1650-1715 witnessed a series of wars from which emerged many of the theories practices and technologies that characterize modern warfare. During this period European armies evolved modern ideas of army organization and military leadership as well as modern views of campaign strategy and battle tactics. As European soldiers and colonists moved into Asia the Middle East and the Americas the practice or influence of their military techniques and ideas also affected wars fought in those places. In this volume''s 1000 plus entries an award-winning author of reference works on international relations and war describes and defines important events technologies and individuals from this seminal period of global military history.Besides more than 1000 extensively cross-referenced entries the encyclopedia also includes 14 maps of various wars and battles as well as a detailed chronology of the period and a current select bibliography of useful print and nonprint information resources.