Oct 96 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXVIIBy Alex Richards The Swedish success at the Second Battle of Breitenfeld, coupled with the failures by the Imperial armies to expel the F...
Sep 256 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXVIBy 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 116 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXVBy 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 285 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIVBy Alex Richards Having examined the Northern campaign immediately after the Peace of Prague, the war in Lower Saxony, the war in Hesse a...
Aug 147 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIIIBy 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 315 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIIBy Alex RIchards While seeing initial successes, by 1636 the French position in Alsace had stalled and she was facing renewed attacks on ...
Jul 175 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIBy Alex Richards While the strategic situation within the Empire changed after the start of the Franco-Swedish phase of the war, the effe...
Jul 47 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXBy Alex Richards With the promulgation of the Edict of Restitution, the nature of the Thirty Years War changed for the Guelph principalit...
Jun 195 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXIXBy Alex Richards While the Northern front of the later Thirty Years War was largely conducted independently from the other fronts of the ...
Jun 56 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXVIIIBy 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 226 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXVIIBy Alex Richards While the battle of Wittstock had ensured that Sweden would retain a significant foothold in Germany, the wider strategi...
May 86 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXVIBy Alex Richards The latter stage of the Thirty Years War- usually referred to as either the French or Franco-Swedish phase- became incre...
Apr 247 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXVBy Alex Richards While the start of 1630 saw France funding the Swedes against the Emperor, and the Dutch against the Spanish, Richelieu ...
Apr 85 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXIVBy 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...
Mar 257 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXIIIBy Alex Richards When Amalie Elisabeth began her term as Regent of Hesse-Kassel for her son William VI, the Landgraviate was in a state o...
Mar 116 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXIIBy Alex Richards Of the three main states left out of the Peace of Prague, arguably the most surprising at first glance was the decision ...
Feb 267 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXIBy Alex Richards While neither the scale of the Swedish defeat at the battle of Nördlingen, nor indeed the battle itself, were inevitable...
Feb 125 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXBy Alex Richards With the death of Wallenstein, the inaction that had held the Imperial army since Lützen was broken, sparking a new burs...
Jan 317 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XIXBy 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 167 minPODs 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...
