This essay provides an overall and analytic picture of the military presence in the Napoleonic Milan (1796-1814), the capital city of a vast Italian State. The unpublished archives documentation, also rich in statistical data, allows to reconstruct an overview of the armed forces – military and paramilitary – permanently present intra moenia and the logistics that supported them. It is also proposed a preliminary assessment of the relations between the military world and the urban civil dimension, also in a comparison both with the Milan, as stronghold of previous historical periods (Spanish and Austrian), and with other cities of the same Napoleonic period.
Pagano, E., Napoleonic Milan: the military city (1800-1814), in Bianchi, A., Cascetta, A. (ed.), Napoleonic Milan. Laboratory of modernity and strategies of representation, ETS, Pisa 2022: 31- 61 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/217208]
Napoleonic Milan: the military city (1800-1814)
Pagano, Emanuele
2022
Abstract
This essay provides an overall and analytic picture of the military presence in the Napoleonic Milan (1796-1814), the capital city of a vast Italian State. The unpublished archives documentation, also rich in statistical data, allows to reconstruct an overview of the armed forces – military and paramilitary – permanently present intra moenia and the logistics that supported them. It is also proposed a preliminary assessment of the relations between the military world and the urban civil dimension, also in a comparison both with the Milan, as stronghold of previous historical periods (Spanish and Austrian), and with other cities of the same Napoleonic period.
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