ABSTRACT
The use of the concept of a military revolution in the early-modern period was greatly advanced by Geoffrey Parker in his The Military Revolution. This chapter argues that if the global and military significance of the second stage of the early-modern 'military revolution is to be grasped, it is necessary to look at that warfare. It has to be considered both on land and on sea, for scholars mostly concerned with Frederician warfare and more generally with that of the eighteenth century have tended to neglect the naval side—; and yet it is clear that the concept of a military revolution. Consideration of the Spaniards in the New World is valuable because it underlines the flexibility of European military models. The notion that mobility on campaign and the value of the attack in battle were not rediscovered until the Revolutionary Wars is therefore misleading.
