The Good Press of the Bourbon Army. A Critical Look

Abstract

Although during the eighteenth century was transforming the Army for work of the Spanish rulers, today remains too much burden of praise for the achievements of those Bourbons, especially Carlos III, while still remains an interested forgotten about Austrias work of the seventeenth century. In line with the new historiographical currents are reviewing those two centuries, insisting what there was continuity rather than rupture with the arrival of the new dynasty, we believe that there was also a military transition as were many reforms put in launched by Felipe V that were based on projects proposed in the last decades of the seventeenth century. Moreover, the effectiveness of the new army will be tested in the many conflicts that he had to face Spain. The balance was much more positive for our interests in the first half of the century than in the last decades, in which the Spanish armies could not adapt to the new times.