30YearsWar #68: With Allies Like These [1640-41]

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

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

By 1640, both the Habsburgs and their foes had reached something of a crisis. There were opportunities to be had, if a new campaign could be pursued, but where to find the money, and how to support the soldiers in lands no longer suitable for massive armies? As they sized each other up, diplomacy continued in the background. Could the Swedes and French finally achieve that seizmic victory they desperately needed?

Could anything plug the gaping hole in Habsburg financial and military resources long enough to reclaim the Empire for the Emperor? If Vienna could not rely on Madrid, and Stockholm could not depend on Paris, there was no guarantee that a new campaign would be in the offing at all. But this is only 1640, so you know we've eight more years to go. They were destined to be arguably the longest years of all.

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0:00.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.6	Now, picture you, zooming past it all.
0:13.8	Light and breezy.
0:16.2	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.8	Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.com.
0:24.9	Avante West Coast, feel good travel.
0:32.5	Thanks for your support on Patreon, Derek Uppam.
0:37.4	Derek led Johann Banner's cavalry all the way to the Regensburg Diet,
0:42.2	and he would have captured the town itself only for the Danube's melting ice.
0:46.6	Nice try, Derek.
0:47.8	This, of course, is all lie.
0:49.2	If you would like me to lie about you, you know where to go.
0:51.8	Patreon.com forward slash when diplomacy fails or click on the link in the
0:55.8	description below.
1:10.0	Hello and welcome history friends, patrons all, to episode 68 of the 30 Years' War.
1:14.3	So in the last episode, we delved into the abject misery and suffering that Europe was facing
1:19.7	into by the late 1630s after more than 20 years of war. But as we know, this is the 30 years
1:25.7	war. So we still have some way to go before the
1:27.6	story is finished, and the war must go on in the meantime. Today we're resuming our story
1:32.9	from the year 1640, a nice round year, but the protagonists were no closer to solving the
1:39.6	issues that brought them to the conflict in the first place. By now, the war was changing colour in many respects.
1:45.9	There were a few major victories on the battlefield still left to be had,
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