WDF 29.975: The Franco-Dutch War XXIV

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This is it, the final episode in the series - a massive blowout of all we've seen and experienced so far, and a fitting conclusion to such an incredible conflict!Within this episode, we bring the narratives together and reveal that, although it had taken all this time to arrive at such a destination, Europe was no closer to peace than it had been in 1672. While the treaties were of course hammered out, troubling clouds remained on the horizon, yet what no power could deny was the fact that behind these clouds, and around which their interests seemed to revolve, was the Sun King. If the FDW meant anything for the continent then, it meant that, amidst the failed hopes, fleeting triumphs and horrific losses, Louis XIV had definitively arrived. Let’s see how it all went down, as I take to you to mid-1678, in this, the final episode of the FDW…Remember my dear listeners the importance of BEFIT to this podcast - please also make sure to follow us on Twitter @wdfpodcastSupport us on Patreon... Get bonus content on Patreon

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello history friends. Welcome to the Franco Dutch War episode 24. That's right, we reached the end of it.
0:07.7	This is the very last episode in the series and it's the very last episode of our current episodic schedule
0:14.0	before we unleash the fifth birthday on you guys. A reminder that that lands on all of you on the 18th of May 2017, which is pretty
0:23.2	darn near. A few days in fact, a few days away. I'd like to thank you guys for listening to this
0:29.3	entire episode in all of its 24 episodes glory. And please let me know if you enjoyed me telling
0:35.6	this story to you, because it's a story that, as you may have noticed, if you searched for it in any kind of sense, it's not been told all that often.
0:42.6	So I really enjoyed going through it.
0:44.6	And in many ways, it's the podcast that I'd wanted to do for a very long time.
0:49.4	And we're by no means finished with Louis XIV.
0:51.5	Yet, in September of this year, we'll be taking our story back up
0:55.7	and going through what's called the Long War, which essentially was waged from the early 1680s
1:01.3	to the late 1690s. It's one of those periods of history that has loads of disparate events
1:06.1	and disparate conflicts kind of tied in altogether. So I hope you're looking forward to that.
1:11.6	A reminder,
1:16.2	of course, that this podcast is on Patreon. So if you would like to support us on the eve of our fifth birthday before all of that lands on you guys, in fact, if you'd even like to send a bit
1:21.6	of change my way, because I now leveled up as an adult and I'm married now by the time you're listening to this. And I'm also, hopefully, still on my honeymoon at this stage.
1:30.1	It's kind of hard to tell exactly when I'm going to release this last episode.
1:33.4	I'd like to make it a kind of party, special atmosphere, so who knows, but I may be back.
1:38.8	I may be still in Lake Como, but wherever I am, I am now a fully-fledged adult. I'm no longer the 20-year-old
1:45.3	Zach, who five years ago tried to tell you about Bannockburn. I'm now 25 years old, and although
1:50.9	in many ways I haven't changed, in other ways I have, and I'd like to thank you guys for being
1:55.4	with me all the way along. So yeah, patreon.com.4.S. When Diplomacy Fails, if you're looking for ways to support this
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Zack Twamley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Zack Twamley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.