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Now, picture you, zooming past it all.

Light and breezy.

Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.

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Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. Hello and welcome history friends patrons all to episode 71 of the 30 years war.

In the last episode we examined several events which changed the landscape of the conflict and it was before Christmas

and all that jazz so you may have forgotten but we looked at the beginnings of the peace

conferences and moonsster and Osnabrook and the increased Swedish military prowess following the

arrival of Leonard Torstensen and the triumph at the Second Battle of Brightonfeld.

These events suggested not just that the war was entering its final phase, but also that

it was really starting to turn against the Hasburgs in virtually all theatres.

This was evident in central Germany, where the Swedish army was still on the rampage, but at 1642 turned to 1643,

it was also to be visible in the French theatre too.

In this episode then we're going to follow on from that Swedish triumph by focusing on the exploits of their French ally.

It was a time of great triumph, but also of bitter loss. Before we do delve into that, though,

I want to make you aware of something that's happening in the next few days. You see, over the last

two weeks, I worked feverishly to make a 12-episode series, which will be available for patrons. The first episode of this series

will be available to everyone so you can get a glimpse of what's to come but what's

it all about? Well I'll talk more about its inner workings on my plan for it in

the very first episode which should be out this Friday but to cut a long story

short we're going to be covering the

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