Thirty Years War

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Apr 9, 20216 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War L

By Alex Richards The Westphalian Peace It is tempting, from the perspective of the writer of Alternate History, to speculate on the...

Mar 27, 20214 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVIX

By Alex Richards With Imperial war efforts in the Rhineland effectively ended, the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne’s campaign in Cologne...

Mar 12, 20215 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVIII

By Alex Richards While the conflict in the Spanish Netherlands occupied the majority of French attention, Turenne and the remaining...

Feb 27, 20216 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVII

By Alex Richards If the Peace of Ulm had allowed Elector Maximilian of Bavaria to, ultimately, reorient his attentions towards Bohemia...

Feb 12, 20214 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVI

By Alex Richards When Elector Maximilian of Bavaria signed the Peace of Ulm on behalf of himself and his brother, the Archbishop-Elector...

Jan 30, 20218 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLV

By Alex Richards While the year 1647 had been relatively quiet in the realm of military actions, the peace negotiations in Westphalia...

Jan 16, 20215 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLIV

By Alex Richards With the conclusion of the Ulm Truce of 1647, and the continuation of the concurrent negotiations in Westphalia, the...

Jan 1, 20214 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLIII

By Alex Richards While the year 1646 had seen the first major peace negotiations of the Thirty Years War bear fruit, this by no means...

Dec 18, 20205 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLII

By Alex Richards With the close of the 1645 campaigns by Sweden and France, the strategic division of effort that had been emerging in...

Dec 4, 20207 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XLI

By Alex Richards The Battle of Freiburg had been a bloody and indecisive affair on the tactical level, but had created the strategic...

Nov 20, 20207 min read

PODs of the Thirty Years War XL

By Alex Richards With the defeat of the French at the Battle of Tuttlingen, the frontiers of the war in Swabia had returned to the same...

Nov 6, 20205 min read

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...

Oct 23, 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 9, 20206 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...

Sep 25, 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 11, 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...

Aug 28, 20205 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 14, 20207 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...

Jul 31, 20205 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 17, 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...

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