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Original flag of the Army of the Two Sicilies. The Army of the Two Sicilies, also known as the Royal Army of His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Reale esercito di Sua Maestà il Re del Regno delle Due Sicilie), the Bourbon Army (Esercito Borbonico) or the Neapolitan Army (Esercito Napoletano), was the land forces of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, whose armed forces also ...
Both Naples and Sicily were conquered by a Spanish army during the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, and Charles, Duke of Parma, a younger son of King Philip V of Spain, the first member of the French House of Bourbon to rule in Spain, was installed as King of Naples and Sicily
The Army's 7th Regiment of the Line was one of the few military units in Europe during the period which consisted primarily of Black soldiers. It was originally the Black Pioneers, a battalion-sized French army unit raised from Afro-Caribbeans who had emigrated to France from the French West Indies, including Saint-Domingue. When the Kingdom of ...
In 1860 the active army was made up of four army corps, one of the guards and three of the line, for a total of around 90,000 soldiers in active service and over 50,000 in the reserve, therefore overall the total of the Two Sicilies forces at full mobilization could have had 143,586 personnel, [60] while according to other sources, the maximum ...
Finley, M. I., Denis Mack Smith and Christopher Duggan, A History of Sicily (1987) abridged one-volume version of 3-volume set of 1969) Imbruglia, Girolamo, ed. Naples in the eighteenth century: The birth and death of a nation state (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Mendola, Louis. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1734–1861 (2019) Petrusewicz ...
The Army of Naples (French: Armée de Naples) was a French Army unit which took this name following its capture of Naples in 1799. It was related to the Army of Italy.The Army of Naples was virtually annihilated after the Battle of the Trebbia: more than half of the personnel were casualties.
Murat's Army: The Army of the Kingdom of Naples 1806-1815. Solihull: Helion Limited. ISBN 978-1-912-39009-0. Crociani, Pietro (2016), L'Esercito del Regno Napoletano: The Army of the Kingdom of Naples, 1806-1815, Soldiershop; V. Ilari, P. Crociani, G. Boeri, Storia Militare del Regno Murattiano 1806-15, Widerholdt Frères, Invorio, 2007, vol. I ...
The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History. University of Pennsylvania Press. Mendola, Louis. The Kingdom of Sicily 1130-1266: The Norman-Swabian Age and the Identity of a People, Trinacria Editions, New York, 2021. Metcalfe, Alex. Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic Speakers and the End of Islam, Routledge, 2002. Metcalfe ...