WDF 25.8: SPECIAL= The 30 Years War Part Thirteen: 1638-1642
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2014
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine winning £15 million on Christmas Day. |
| 0:05.5 | The £15 million £lotto jackpot must be won on Christmas Day. |
| 0:10.7 | There's still time to get in the draw. |
| 0:13.1 | Lotto, will you be the next millionaire? |
| 0:16.1 | The National Lottery, rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:18.5 | Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:28.7 | Thank you. lottery, rules of procedures apply, players must be 18 or over. When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, |
| 0:35.2 | which provideth for every man by victory or death. |
| 0:39.3 | Thomas Hobbes. Dr. William Harvey was the attach to the English ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire |
| 1:16.6 | and attended the Regensburg meeting in the summer of 1636 which was intended to cement |
| 1:22.6 | Ferdinand III status as his father's successor. |
| 1:26.6 | While he stayed in the town of Regensburg, Dr. |
| 1:29.2 | Harvey explored the surrounding countryside of the town and witnessed first-hand the kind |
| 1:34.0 | of devastation Englishmen could only have imagined in their worst nightmares. Harvey noted |
| 1:39.3 | with particular horror the fact that the war continued despite the awful state of the area |
| 1:43.7 | and the plight of the |
| 1:44.5 | citizens. |
| 1:46.3 | This warfare in Germany, he wrote, threatened in the end anarchy and confusion, and he also |
| 1:51.8 | commented on, the necessity they have here of making peace on any condition, where there is |
| 1:57.1 | no means more of making war, or scarce of subsistence. |
| 2:01.9 | Charles I of England was made aware by the reports of Harvey just how bad the situation |
| 2:06.6 | in the Holy Roman Empire had become, since Ferdinand II, of course, would never reveal just |
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