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Jan 1
4 min

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 mea...

Dec 18, 2020
5 min

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 th...

Dec 4, 2020
7 min

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 open...

Nov 20, 2020
7 min

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 p...

Nov 6, 2020
5 min

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 transf...

Oct 23, 2020
5 min

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. Ferdi...

Oct 9, 2020
6 min

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 F...

Sep 25, 2020
6 min

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, 2020
6 min

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 pre-emin...

Aug 28, 2020
5 min

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 a...

Aug 14, 2020
7 min

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 S...

Jul 31, 2020
5 min

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, 2020
5 min

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 effe...

Jul 4, 2020
7 min

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 principalit...

Jun 19, 2020
5 min

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 5, 2020
6 min

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 C...

May 22, 2020
6 min

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 strategi...

May 8, 2020
6 min

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 incre...

Apr 24, 2020
7 min

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 8, 2020
5 min

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 Pha...

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