Hi folks, welcome to episode 123 of the

the epochs of the load cedars.

I'm joined by Bo, and today we're going to be talking

about something I know virtually nothing about,

the war of Austrian succession,

as part of my skipping the crazily complex wars of the sort of 17th

and 19th centuries in Europe apart from the Napoleonic Wars was was this actually so

I don't really I just know I remember when I was looking

around at history when I was first started getting interesting I saw just a massive

Wikipedia page about as I'm writing that looks important I'll ignore that now. This is one of those things. So what happened?

Well where we've done a few episodes on the 18th century what we did Wall Pole we did Blenim and we did the war of the Spanish succession yeah

I'd like to do an episode or perhaps even two because it's such a big topic. On the Seven Years War, which is later than this. So this

war, just to put it in its context, is 1740 to 48. And the Seven Years War is in the 50s, through the 50s into the 60s, 1750s and 60s, because that is a giant

giant thing, Churchill called it the first world war.

It was the biggest sort of global conflagration there had ever been up to that point.

That's the seven years war.

So you could quite easily say the biggest

things that happen in the eighteenth century are the war of the Spanish succession right at the

beginning and then the seven years war the seven years war is so huge that it sort of it sort of sets the power structure for

into the 20th century in some senses until today in some ways it's just absolutely huge seven years well so what I

wanted to do is sort of link up that this will be sort of an episode sort of

setting the scene for that because a lot of the players in that start here.

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