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The 1628 portion of the siege of La Rochelle was an anxious time for Cardinal Richelieu, as much as it was for the inhabitants of Casale, the bastion of the Duchy of Montferrat. Bec...
2021-10-31 21:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Huguenots and the English landing on the Isle of Re presented a serious challenge for Richelieu in the summer of 1627, but it was in North Italy, in the Duchies of Mantua ...
2021-10-17 15:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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Order your copy of Matchlock and the Embassy by clicking here.
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2021-09-20 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Order your copy of Matchlock and the Embassy by clicking here.
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2021-09-19 12:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hello my dear patrons! No audio here, just an update, to let you know that Matchlock and the Embassy is out NOW in e-book format, and the paperback is following clo...
2021-09-16 16:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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In our final episode of Poland Is Not Yet Lost for a while - see this episode 2021-08-16 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Time to enlighten you on how our new content and plans will factor into our Patreon page going forward, and why you should be very excited indeed!
Don...
2021-08-11 10:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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After so many months preparing, I can finally announce what's happening, and why I'm so excited!
I don't want to give anything away, but I will say, i...
2021-08-11 10:29:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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Keep an eye out for a huge announcement, dropping this week!
Emperor Ferdinand had it all. The Habsburg dynasty had never been so supreme, and his en...
2021-08-09 05:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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By the late 1740s, Saxony appeared to be a shadow of its former self. Riven by war, and defeated several times by its once puny neighbours, the tides of history seemed to have consu...
2021-08-02 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Was the Thirty Years War a religious war? The long answer is no, the short answer is that religious issues were rarely far from the forefront of the conflict, especially before 1635...
2021-07-26 05:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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After nearly eight years of war in Europe, the interested parties were more than ready for it to end. By 1748, a conference not unlike that of Westphalia a century before took...
2021-07-19 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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1628 was a pivotal year of the Thirty Years War. Not only did it contain the final full year of war between the Emperor and the Danes, it also contained a total of three sieges runn...
2021-07-12 16:38:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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In early 1745, it seemed as though Frederick's errors had caught up to him. Austria, Saxony and Britain aimed at nothing less than his destruction, and even the most generous of com...
2021-07-05 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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By 1628, the Habsburgs seemed triumphant. The plan was then to reach the Baltic, and build a fleet of their own to terrify Scandinavia into submission. Would it work? The recent gif...
2021-06-28 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Somehow Austria had kept it all together. Even after all seemed lost, the Maria Theresa had didn't give up hope. And now, after years of turmoil, far flung negotiations between the ...
2021-06-21 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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By late 1626, Emperor Ferdinand was riding high. But this season of triumph was not enough. Ferdinand had bigger dreams than the mere destruction of his enemies. He imagined a new w...
2021-06-14 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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After a worrying start, the War of the Austrian Succession was finally beginning to turn a corner for Vienna. This was thanks in large part to two main factors. First, British diplo...
2021-06-07 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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As 1626 dawned, two saviours were on the march to the rescue of their respective camps. King Christian IV of Denmark looked poised to save the princes and cities of the Lower Saxon ...
2021-05-31 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Things looked pretty grim for Vienna by spring 1741, and they only got worse as the year progressed. Prussian forces had surged into Silesia, taking its anemic defences comple...
2021-05-24 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Frederick's motives for making war were multi-layered, but his entire act was wholly unexpected by most of Europe. Should the rest of Europe have seen Frederick the Great's first wa...
2021-05-10 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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With the King of Denmark on the march, and the net closing in on him, Emperor Ferdinand was forced to go big or go home. So instead, he went big, VERY big. He turned to Albrecht von...
2021-05-03 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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We know that Prussia went for broke in 1740, and attacked Silesia, but what about the Austrians? What had they gone through which made them so susceptible to an attack? And, what wa...
2021-04-26 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Anna and I have just established a new independ...
2021-04-19 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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By 1740, a new era had dawned. This was the era of the greats - Frederick the Great, Maria Theresa the Great, and soon followed by Catherine the Great. Where did Poland fit when the...
2021-04-12 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Hague Alliance was only the latest in a long series of things that Frederick couldn't afford to get his hopes up about. It involved England, the Netherlands and Denmark in...
2021-04-05 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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After dancing around the conflict for so long, here we get deep into the story of the War of the Polish Succession, and examine how its furies spread all across the continent, parti...
2021-03-31 08:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Have I got a story for you, or rather, a play. With the failure of the Spanish Match, the anti-Spanish sentiments were bound to soar in England, but when a not so subtle play - A Ga...
2021-03-22 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post