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...
Dec 18, 201910 minPODs 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 Protest...
Dec 4, 20198 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War: Part XVIBy Alex Richards As summer dawned in 1632, Gustavus Adolphus found himself in a challenging position. Despite his advance into the Empire...
Nov 20, 20196 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War: Part XVBy Alex Richards As September 1631 dawned, the trend of the Thirty Years War appeared to be fixed. Initial Protestant rebellions would be...
Nov 6, 20196 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part XIVBy Alex Richards Turning at last to the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years War, we come to the most famous and celebrated part of t...
Oct 23, 20195 minPODs 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 di...
Oct 9, 20196 minPODs 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 W...
Sep 11, 20197 minPODs of the Thirty Years War X By Alex Richards While the Thirty Years War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, participation from states beyo...
