Imperial Masterpiece: The Battle of Nördlingen 1634 | Thirty Years' War

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Play World of Warships here: https://wo.ws/3zdTsFv Thank you World of Warships for sponsoring this video. During registration use the code BRAVO to get some exclusive rewards. It’s 5 a.m. on a cold and foggy morning on the 6th of September 1634. The Protestant army, mostly Germans and Swedes, stands at the foot of a hill close to the German city of Nördlingen. Everyone is waiting for the order to attack. Suddenly, the artillery breaks the silence with the cracking thunder of its bombardment. The protestant war cry “god with us” resounds along the frontline. It is mirrored on the other side by the Catholic “long live the house of Habsburgs” in German, Italian, Spanish and Flemish versions. The battle of Nördlingen has just begun. In this video, we analyze the battle of Nördlingen with the aim of answering three questions: Firstly, what political, strategical and tactical constellation led to an immense battle of four different armies? Secondly, why did this battle change the course of the war and initiate the so-called ‘French phase’ of the Thirty Years War? And thirdly, does this battle really justify the assertion that the Spanish Tercio formation was just as effective as the Swedish Brigades as is commonly argued? Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/sandrhomanhistory Prints & T-Shirts: https://sandrhoman.creator-spring.com/ Paypal (thank you: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SandRhomanhistory Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sandrhoman Bibliography: Guthrie, William, Battles of the Thirty Years War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635, 2001. Höbelt, Lothar, Von Nördlingen bis Jankau. Kaiserliche Strategie und Kriegführung 1634–1645, 2016. Wilson, Peter, The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy, 2009. Ribas, Alberto Raul Esteban, The Battle of Nördlingen 1634. The Bloody Fight Between Tercios and Brigades, 2021. Fiction related to the Early modern period: Alexandre Dumas,The Three Musketeers https://amzn.to/2CJVAuu Alexandre Dumas, 20 Years After https://amzn.to/32g82Lv Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne https://amzn.to/2EnIOCB Markus Heitz, The Dark Lands https://amzn.to/3ntZgEu Military Si-Fi recommendations: Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (Series of 22 books on the Napoleonic Wars), https://amzn.to/3RZyty0 Dan Abnett, The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) https://amzn.to/3vdGxkZ Dan Abnett, The Lost: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) https://amzn.to/3osvFvA Dan Abnett, The Saint A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) https://amzn.to/3orikUk Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company Series Book 1) https://amzn.to/3PVgyGV Historiography: Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History 1999. https://amzn.to/3NCyoNl Despite focused on ancient history, it's a brilliant book for anybody who is interested in what history actually is. Is it a story? How does it work in practise? Can writing history be objective? Is it "scientific"? What makes it a proper discipline at university?