30YearsWar #58: Out With The Old
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen cast a long shadow over the year 1633. Could the Swedes rebound, and consolidate their gains, or would the Emperor avenge himself on his ungrateful subjects, after a worrying season of setbacks? As it turned out, nothing came easy to either side in the new year. But as Gustavus' ghost was joined by another, even more consistent actor in the conflict, one thing was clear - the Thirty Years' War had turned a corner, and Europe would never be the same again...
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for your support on Patreon, Jonas Brandes. |
| 0:03.9 | As a qualified physician, Jonas was present during Frederick V's final moments, |
| 0:09.3 | and he did his best to comfort him before the Electropalitine succumbed to a fever. |
| 0:14.8 | Good effort, Jonas. |
| 0:15.9 | This of course is all a lie, but if you would like me to lie about you, you know where to go. |
| 0:19.7 | Head on over to patreon.com for it slash when diplomacy fails. |
| 0:23.4 | More on that later, but for now, enjoy episode 58 of the 30 Years' War. |
| 0:44.8 | Hello and welcome history friends, patrons, patrons all, to when diplomacy fails, a 10-year-old podcast, I can say that officially now, and we are looking here, of course, at the 30-years |
| 0:49.9 | War. Kind of feels like we've been doing the 30 Years War series for 10 years, but there you go. |
| 0:54.7 | Just a tiny bit of housekeeping before we start. This is the final time I'll be recording |
| 0:59.4 | in this place. We are in the process, myself and Anna of Moving House. So they tell you |
| 1:06.0 | moving house is the most stressful thing you can do other than like getting married, or maybe it's getting |
| 1:11.1 | divorced, I'm not sure. But either way, I can tell you, as a unbiased source, yes, moving house is |
| 1:16.5 | very stressful, but I'm very fortunate to be able to move house because Ireland at the moment is |
| 1:21.5 | pretty awful for the housing situation. That in itself is another story, but if you're wondering |
| 1:26.7 | why I haven't been doing any like 10 weeks to run wild type celebrations for our 10th birthday, then that is why a lot of things are just happening at the moment between handing in the chapter of my PhD, my best friend's wedding, and now this. |
| 1:42.6 | So, yeah, life is kind of getting in the way of the podcast which |
| 1:46.3 | is really just not acceptable at all but things should be coming down the next while hopefully by |
| 1:50.9 | the end of may or so i will be settled into our new place we'll still be living in county wicklow which |
| 1:56.3 | is all that matters to me really i just want to be a county wicklow man and nothing else expect some |
| 2:00.6 | kind of |
| 2:01.1 | celebration probably ridiculous out of proportion celebration in the month of june or so in terms of |
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