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The Venetian army was the army of the city-state of Venice, and later of the Republic of Venice and its dominions. During the Republic's early centuries, it was a force comprising an urban militia .
A 15th century miniature depicting the assault, created by David Aubert. On 9 April 1204, as part of the Fourth Crusade, Venetian ships combined with numerous Crusader forces started their assault on the Byzantine capital Constantinople, after Byzantine Emperor Alexios I of Trebizond refused to provide the Crusader army with money to assist the Crusade.
The supremacy over the Mediterranean Sea led the Republic to the clash with Genoa, which lasted until the 14th century, when, after having risked complete collapse during the War of Chioggia (with the Genoese army and fleet in the lagoon for a long period), Venice quickly managed to recover from the territorial losses suffered with the Treaty ...
The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Venetian Republic 's naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period .
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Milanese army under Francesco Sforza: Venetian victory: 1453, June 14 – November 27 Orzinuovi, Lombardy: Wars in Lombardy: Bertoldo d'Este — Milanese-French army under Francesco Sforza and René of Anjou: Milanese victory, Venice loses Bassa Bresciana Occidentale: The French army joined the battle since the autumn. 1453, August 15: Ghedi ...
Altogether, by late summer the Venetian army numbered over 19,000 men, [11] while some sources claim that Venice had as many as 32,000 men under arms. Paduan chroniclers record that the Venetian force was the largest seen in Italy since the wars of Frederick Barbarossa against the Lombard League in the 12th century, and that the Republic spent ...
In November 1432 a Venetian army was crushed by Piccinino at the Battle of Delebio by a joint army of Milan and Valtellina, which had been invaded by the Serenissima in 1431. The peace of Ferrara in May 1433 institutionalized an unsteady status quo.