30YearsWar #70: Enter Torstensson [1641-42]
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
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🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
1641 was the year when Lennart Torstensson was finally appointed commander of Sweden's mostly German army. Having hunkered down for many years in the north of the country, Torstensson understood that Sweden had to strike hard against the Imperials if anything was to change. Possessed of a fierce determination and great strategic mind, the new commander pressed his advantage and seized a new triumph in the graveyard of Gustavus Adolphus' most famous victory. Torstensson knew a great deal about the Battle of Brietenfeld - he had commanded the artillery on that fateful day, and he intended to make this second Breitenfeld even greater than the first.
Off the battlefield, peace feelers were finally beginning to go somewhere, albeit at a painfully slow pace. The basics of a two-city conference were established, but other than the selection of Osnabruck and Munster, little else of consequence could be decided on so long as there were victories to be gained from war. Still, these talks about peace talks produced significant fruit in their own right. The all out war was drawing to an end, and the interconnected fronts would soon be drawn into a peace. Before the peace was made, though, it would first have to be won.
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| 0:32.6 | Thanks for your support on Patreon, John Bentley. |
| 0:37.4 | John was wind and dined at Stockholm in 1641, alongside |
| 0:41.9 | other Swedish colonels at Oxenstierna's instruction as a make-good for all his years of military service. |
| 0:48.9 | Thanks for all you do, John. This of course is all lie. If you would like me to lie about you, you know where to go. |
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| 1:10.4 | Hello and welcome history friends, patrons all to episode 70 of the 30 Years' War. |
| 1:16.6 | Yes, I know this episode is rather late. |
| 1:20.3 | I do apologize. |
| 1:21.6 | These things are kind of running away from me right now. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm doing my best to cling on with my fingernails as I enter into |
| 1:28.3 | the final stages of the PhD. Honestly, it's going fine. I'm fairly happy with my progress so far. |
| 1:36.2 | I just feel pretty terrible about leaving you guys in the lurch for so long. But I also recognize |
| 1:41.5 | that this is a process. It's a balancing act and it's not easy. It was never easy balancing podcast with life in the past. But now that I'm trying to balance PhD and podcast in life, I sometimes come up short. So yeah, sorry about that, but hopefully we can still enjoy our 30 years of work coverage here and you won't feel too bad |
| 2:01.5 | about my inconsistency. I know it'll all be worth it in the end when I'm Dr. Zach and I |
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