Thanks for your support on Patreon, Jeff Zanen.

Jeff was given the task by John George of Saxony of mediating a peace between Sweden and the Saxons.

Unfortunately, despite Jeff's best efforts, diplomacy failed and Sweden's war in the Holy Urban Empire continued.

Sorry about that, Jeff.

This, of course, is all a lie, but if you would like me to lie about you,

you know where to go.

Patreon.com forward slash when diplomacy fails,

or click the link in the description below. Hello and welcome history, friends, patrons all to the 30 Years' War episode 63. Before we start, a huge thanks to all of you for your patience.

I've been kind of having a bit of a mare with all this technology stuff between my laptop

dying and having to basically commandeer this old family laptop and plug in my microphone

and fight with the technology and really, really rely on AVG tune-up.

So I'm really hoping that this is sounding all right by, it's according to what Audacity is telling me right now, it seems to be.

So hopefully we won't have any technical difficulties and we can just get on with the show.

But yeah, it's an expensive time in Zach Tomley's life right now,

and I just got that lovely email from Trinity College telling me that the next installment for the fees is due,

and yeah, yay, isn't this nice having to spend all this money, and still having to find money for a laptop?

But enough of my woes, things were much more difficult

for people in the 1630s than they are for me now, so I suppose I can't complain all that much.

In the last episode, we saw how France spent the initial years of its war. Richelieu's plans for 1635 produced uninspiring results, but it was the year 1636

that truly proved the endurance test, and Spain, in cooperation with the Holy Reign Emperor,

threw all it had at the French borders, failing only due to a lack of coordination and a final

jolt of resistance from Paris.

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