30YearsWar #69: Maiming Spain [1640-41]
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
By 1640, two rebellions shook Madrid to its core, and had a dramatic knock on effect on Spain's ability to support its Habsburg cousins in Vienna. In summer, Catalonia erupted in revolt after years of provocations and intransigence. When Portuguese soldiers were sent to quell the rising, those soldiers took home news of Spanish weakness, and by December, Portugal had broken away, and declared itself independent under King John IV.
It was plain that Spain couldn't suppress the original Dutch revolt with this disaster on its doorstep, and its war against France was also in doubt, as Richelieu took the opportunity to take Catalonia under French protection. The writing was on the wall, the wheels were coming off, but even with this maiming, Spain was not done yet.
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| 0:36.2 | Kyle Walters. |
| 0:37.8 | Kyle interrupted a bullfight in Madrid in 1640 |
| 0:41.6 | to deliver news of Portugal's rebellion against the Crown. |
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| 1:16.8 | Hello and welcome history friends, patrons all, to episode 69 of the Thirty Years' War. |
| 1:21.1 | Last time, we looked at the relations between the French and the Swedes. |
| 1:29.4 | We built up a picture of the years 1640 to 41 in Germany, and on paper at least these years were uneventful. |
| 1:35.3 | No major victories or major losses were sustained by either side, and it had become a war of maneuver. Both parties were angling to play a major role in the peace negotiations, which were |
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