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 of near-total defeat,...
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 to exclude the Landg...
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 in themselves; the ...
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 burst of energy that was...
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 who were the first ...
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 - if only because f...
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 Protestant cause since the ...
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 reaching Munich, an...
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 speedily crushed wh...
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 the whole conflict- 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 did, today I’ll be loo...
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 War, the prospects of...
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 beyond the Holy Roman Em...
Aug 14, 20195 minPODs of the Thirty Years War - Part IXBy Alex Richards In 1629, having fought Denmark to a draw and with Sweden not yet the major active player it was shortly to become, Emperor Ferdinand II app...
Jul 31, 20195 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part VIIIBy Alex Richards In the last article I discussed the potential outcome of a Danish victory in their intervention into northern Germany after 1625. Yet for al...
Jul 17, 20195 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part VIIBy Alex Richards In the last article I gave an overview of the Danish Phase of the War, and the way how it, eventually, ended with Denmark removed from Imper...
Jul 3, 20195 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part VIBy Alex Richards By 1623 it appeared to many in Europe that the conflict in the Holy Roman Empire was over. Frederick V of the Palatinate and his family were...
Jun 19, 20195 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War: Part VBy Alex Richards One of the joys of studying history is the way in which you can find your expectations waylaid by a unexpected discovery. This article is on...
Jun 5, 20195 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part IVby Alex Richards Over the last three articles, we've looked a lot at the politics of the first phase of the Thirty Years War and the potential PoDs that can ...
May 22, 20195 minPoDs of the Thirty Years War: IIIBy Alex Richards Over the last two articles, I've discussed the potential consequences of the biggest potential PoD of the first phase of the Thirty Years Wa...
