30YearsWar: 17th Century Warfare Episode 11

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Breitenfeld. The most important battle of the Thirty Years War in my view, and the ideal but also terrifying testing ground for all of Gustavus' new reforms. Could the Swedish King leverage all his innovations in the infantry drill, in the use of artillery, or in the harnessing of cavalry's best bits? Or would he be just another victim to Count Tilly's war machine? You probably know the answer, considering his large fame, but you may not know the story of how it all happened. With a focus that I don't usually take, WDF is going to the battlefield for once, so I hope to see you all there!

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0:00.0	Hello there, history friends.
0:01.6	Before we get settled in to this latest episode of 17th century warfare,
0:05.7	looking at the Battle of Brightonfeld.
0:08.0	Hope you're looking forward to that.
0:09.5	I just wanted to make you aware that the special offer for when diplomacy fails
0:13.6	expires in a week.
0:15.7	So if you want to get your name listed in the acknowledgements of our 30 Years' War book,
0:22.0	make sure you head on over to patreon.com for it slash when diplomacy fails and sign up to become a PhD pal today.
0:28.7	In return, you will of course get that book signed and delivered to your door when it is available
0:33.6	and you'll also get access to all the other things that $5 patrons, $2
0:38.2	patrons, $1 patrons, etc., get access to.
0:42.0	I have been told it's almost overwhelming the amount of extra audio content you suddenly
0:47.2	get access to when you sign up on Patreon, mostly because there's such a large back
0:52.1	catalog of stuff there that you won't get anywhere else.
0:55.0	Everything from Louis XIV's Arms and Armies, which is similar in many ways to this series here,
1:02.2	except it's looking at Louis rather than 30 years war early 17th century kinds of things.
1:07.9	Then you've got the Jan Sobieski Biography series, which is available to
1:12.6	$2 patrons and above. And then you got 1956, which is a series we did over the last year
1:19.0	and a half or so, which looks at several different events that took place in that very
1:23.5	eventful year, including the Suez Crisis. More recently, of course, we've started. Poland
1:28.4	is not yet lost, so make sure you check that out as well if you want to learn about what Poland
1:33.6	was doing not particularly well and not particularly easily in the 18th century. To sign up and
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