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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
PODs of the Thirty Years War XIX
By Alex Richards The Battle of Lützen had been a punishing affair to both sides but, despite the loss of their monarch, it was the Swedes...
Jan 31, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XVIII
By Alex Richards With the death of Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden’s actions in the Thirty Years War were inevitably to become more constrained...
Jan 16, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XVII​
By Alex Richards The death of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Lützen brought to an end both the most successful period for the...
Dec 18, 201910 min read
PoDs of the Thirty Years War: Part XVI
By Alex Richards As summer dawned in 1632, Gustavus Adolphus found himself in a challenging position. Despite his advance into the Empire...
Dec 4, 20198 min read
PoDs of the Thirty Years War: Part XV
By Alex Richards As September 1631 dawned, the trend of the Thirty Years War appeared to be fixed. Initial Protestant rebellions would be...
Nov 20, 20196 min read
PoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part XIV
By Alex Richards Turning at last to the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years War, we come to the most famous and celebrated part of...
Nov 6, 20196 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XIII​
By Alex Richards Completing our quartet of articles on how the Thirty Years war could have expanded still further than it historically...
Oct 23, 20195 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XII​
By Alex Richards So far we’ve looked at the possibilities of the Stuart Realms and the Dutch becoming more involved in the Thirty Years...
Oct 9, 20196 min read
PoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part XI
By Alex Richards If, for the Stuart Realms, the question is why they weren’t more involved in the Thirty Years War than they actually...
Sep 25, 20195 min read
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