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Hello and welcome to Part 2 When Diplomacy Fells' Look at the Franco-Dutch War.

In the last episode, we saw how the Earl of Clarendon was made the scapegoat for all that had gone wrong in the preceding years.

Here he will see the origins of the kind of foreign policies, which led, through a series of insults and errors in judgment,

towards the greatest war Europe had seen since the 30 years war had ended. It all begins with

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