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PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIX
By Alex Richards With the death of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar in July 1639 the position of the anti-Imperial armies was fundamentally...
Nov 6, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXVIII
By Alex Richards Having resolved the situation with Denmark to their satisfaction, Swedish interests now turned back to the Empire....
Oct 23, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXVII​
By Alex Richards The Swedish success at the Second Battle of Breitenfeld, coupled with the failures by the Imperial armies to expel the...
Oct 9, 20206 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXVI
By Alex Richards When last we looked at the northern front of the Franco-Swedish phase of the Thirty Years War, the Swedes had entrenched...
Sep 25, 20206 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXV
By Alex Richards The events of 1640 would prove in the long run to represent the beginning of the end of Spain’s position as the...
Sep 11, 20206 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIV
By Alex Richards Having examined the Northern campaign immediately after the Peace of Prague, the war in Lower Saxony, the war in Hesse...
Aug 28, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIII
By Alex Richards Having successfully crossed the Rhine in 1638, Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar was poised to move the focus of conflict in the...
Aug 14, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXII
By Alex RIchards While seeing initial successes, by 1636 the French position in Alsace had stalled and she was facing renewed attacks on...
Jul 31, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXI
By Alex Richards While the strategic situation within the Empire changed after the start of the Franco-Swedish phase of the war, the...
Jul 17, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXX
By Alex Richards With the promulgation of the Edict of Restitution, the nature of the Thirty Years War changed for the Guelph...
Jul 4, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXIX
By Alex Richards While the Northern front of the later Thirty Years War was largely conducted independently from the other fronts of the...
Jun 19, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXVIII
By Alex Richards With the collapse of the Saxon armies in 1639, Banér had removed the last block to an all-out invasion of the Habsburg...
Jun 5, 20206 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXVII
By Alex Richards While the battle of Wittstock had ensured that Sweden would retain a significant foothold in Germany, the wider...
May 22, 20206 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXVI
By Alex Richards The latter stage of the Thirty Years War- usually referred to as either the French or Franco-Swedish phase- became...
May 8, 20206 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXV
By Alex Richards While the start of 1630 saw France funding the Swedes against the Emperor, and the Dutch against the Spanish, Richelieu...
Apr 24, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXIV
By Alex Richards The period of the Thirty Years war from the Peace of Prague to the Treaty of Westphalia is usually termed the French...
Apr 8, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXIII
By Alex Richards When Amalie Elisabeth began her term as Regent of Hesse-Kassel for her son William VI, the Landgraviate was in a state...
Mar 25, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXII
By Alex Richards Of the three main states left out of the Peace of Prague, arguably the most surprising at first glance was the decision...
Mar 11, 20206 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XXI
By Alex Richards While neither the scale of the Swedish defeat at the battle of Nördlingen, nor indeed the battle itself, were inevitable...
Feb 26, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XX
By Alex Richards With the death of Wallenstein, the inaction that had held the Imperial army since Lützen was broken, sparking a new...
Feb 12, 20205 min read
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