Battle of Nordlingen, 1634 ⚔ How did Sweden️'s domination in Germany end? ⚔️ Thirty Years' War

🚩 The Battle of Nördlingen (1634) was a crushing victory for the Habsburgs in the Thirty Years' War. It ended Swedish domination in southern Germany, and it led France to become an active participant in the war.

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

🎼 Music:
Filmstro

📚 Sources:
• The Battle of Nördlingen 1634: The Bloody Fight Between Tercios and Brigades (Century of the Soldier), by Alberto Raúl Esteban Ribas (2021)
• Battles of the Thirty Years War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635 (Contributions in Military Studies Book 213), by William P. Guthrie (2001)

#sweden #germany #history

[HistoryMarche]

🚩 The Battle of Nördlingen (1634) was a crushing victory for the Habsburgs in the Thirty Years' War. It ended Swedish domination in southern Germany, and it led France to become an active participant in the war.

[Historyverse]

A pleasure working with HistoryMarche as always!

[dragaoastro]

The spanish tercios were something else. Truly, one the best military formation in History.

[bernharto]

As a military history enthusiast and longtime fan of HistoryMarche, HistoryVerse's writing is seriously top notch. There is sometimes a noticeable difference in writing quality between channel collaborations that can make or break my immersion. For me, HistoryVerse has the perfect blend of education, detail and immersive entertainment factor that keeps me glued to the screen the entire time. Seriously good work.

[michaelmazowiecki]

Cardinal Richelieu, as the de facto ruler of France, crushed Protestant Huegenot opposition inside France, at the same time supporting the German Protestant Princes against Catholic Habsburg. His strategy was to break the perceived encirclement of France by the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs. A great pragmatist, he stated that France does not have friends, it has common interests. He thus financed the Protestant Princes and Sweden against the Habsburgs.

[williamromine]

This is one of the very few battles where both sides used tactics that made sense. The leaders on both sides moved and counter moved their forces with few mistakes. The Catholic force just had more battle harden men, which won the day. You did a great job in describing the battle.

[tamasz]

Was wondering where Historyverse has been. Really enjoy their collabs!

[silditto]

historymarche + historyverse collabs are always a good combo

[alltat]

The effort put into pronouncing Axel Oxenstierna (more or less) correctly is appreciated. Non-Swedish speakers usually don't realize that "sti" is a single sound here.

[juless]

So glad to see you working with historyverse! He is a super underrated channel

I loved the video, I think you did a better job than SandRhoman in explaining the campaign that led to the battle and the battle itself, you gave facts that were not mentioned in his video and you focus on fully showing all phases of the battle, correctly implying why it was considered a disaster for the Swedes and other Protestant factions at the time, forcing France to intervene in the conflict for that decisive result..

It must be said that this battle was epic, because in it the champion armies and leaders of the two sides faced each other: on the one hand, the Swedish veteran regiments (which at that time were seen as invincible and tactically more modern troops), while on the other were the old but very veteran Spanish Tercios (which were seen as an outdated force despite having evolved at the same pace as the other armies of the time, but at the same time very feared and capable). There are two pieces of information that you do not mention, but they are also interesting: the first is of vital importance to understand the arrival of the Tercios and their first confrontations with the Swedish armies, which has to do with the Campaign of the Duke of Feria in 1633 through Alsace (which had the role of ensuring the passage to the Cardinal-Infante before his arrival in Germany), in this after the Spanish troops arrived in Italy, he set out to successfully dislodge Horn's Swedish troops who were attacking the cities of Constance and Breisach and recover under Catholic control the cities near the Helvetic Confederation and Bavaria, in this campaign it show It is that the tactical and maneuvering capacity of the Tercios is up to the Swedes, so their actions in the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634 are only confirmation of what had happened a year before. The other curiosity have to do with the same battle, it is said that one of the reasons why the Swedes lost that battle was because they underestimated the Spanish, who despite having expelled them from the Rhine passes the previous year, they still seemed inferior to them due to their unregular and unprofessional appearance, compared to the Germans, which took its toll on them by concentrating their attacks against the supposedly weak Tercios who demonstrated their experience of more than a century of wars by rejecting their attacks (the appearance it is not everything in an army and it deceives the unsuspecting).

It would be great if you could also make a video of the battles of the first phases of the Thirty Years' War, such as that of White Mountain in 1620 or that of Fleurus in 1622. Other interesting options may be later battles (little known) such as the Battle of Honnecourt of 1642 or the Battle of Tuttlingen of 1643, which break with the misconception that the Battle of Rocroi ended the Spanish war efforts.

[ASmith]

It just makes my day when HistoryMarche uploads a new video, I especially like the HistoryVerse collabs!

[DGordillo]

Amazing!! More Spanish content, please!!

[phillip_iv_planetking]

Spanish Tercio greatness witnessed here

[danielbazan]

mate, this kind of content, with so much quality, and also you gift us with half an hour of your art!!!!

[mowm]

Nicely done. This was a complicated battle and campaign, it's weird how after Gustav's big wins everyone pretends this didn't happen.

[bard]

Good work as always! HistoryVerse seems to help put out great work!

[nathanpalmer]

Historyverse is the best! Loved his contributions

[nahmanhg]

I always look forward to these Historyverse collabs, They are some of my favorite videos on the channel!

[pib]

Thank you for this contribution, for - as always with excellence - explaining the various levels involved in this pivotal battle: The wider poltitical constellation which layed pressure on the Swedish to react quickly. The first day of the battle when the Protestants had a "run" against smaller contigents. I had not known about this prequel, before. And the main battle, the back and forth of attacks and counter-attacks. Both sides acted resolutely (about 17 Swedish infantery attacks on the Albuch). Exciting as for courage, though terrible murder,