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@clintmoor422

11 ай бұрын

what are you guys teaching there?

@SgtMattson

11 ай бұрын

On the map of Sweden Björneborg is misspelled as 'Bjöneborg', also Jönköping is missing its öös. Also I would suggest having Åbo (Turku) there instead of Björneborg (Pori). One key aspect often overlooked regarding Sweden at this time is that people often think about the country as being a 'north-to-south' country (because it is like so on the map today) but during this time with Finland and the other areas in the east, one should think about Sweden as a 'west-to-east' country instead.

@notalecguinness3221

11 ай бұрын

Small correction to 6:52: The Lower Saxon Circle wasn't dominated by Brandenburg, the Electorate of Brandenburg was like Saxony part of the Upper Saxon Circle. The Lower Saxon Circle was mostly comprised of Welf territories like the Principality of Calenberg and the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg. To my understanding, the Welf dukes acted rather opportunisticly during the war, regularly switching sides between the Protestants and the Emperor, and maintaining neutrality if possible. The "Mad Halberstädter" Christian of Brunswick was probably not their most typical representative.

@klausgerken1905

11 ай бұрын

In the map around 14:59 there is Bremerhaven on the map. The city of Bremerhaven was only founded on May 1. 1827, after the city of Bremen bought the land to build a new port.

@seanbeahn6895

10 ай бұрын

Would you guys be able to do a video on some of the smaller battles during the Swedish intervention, such as Oldendorf, Steinau and Pfaffenhofen?

Wallenstein really was a typical Mount&Blade player.

@michaelmcnally9737

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking crusader kings but yeah that guy was on a mission

@grandimperialmajestyoftheg4704

11 ай бұрын

*Fire & Sword*

@evallyntc3164

11 ай бұрын

LMAOOOO

@highroller6244

11 ай бұрын

Hahaha, best comment of the day 😂

@ryneboy3845

11 ай бұрын

I was thinking his play style sounded similar 😂

As a Dane, King Christian IV is by far the most well known and popular king among the Danish populace. He was the personal architect and/or buildmaster of many national landmark buildings. However, his massive failures in the 30 Years War and the subsequent Torstensson-feud - in which he had to cede some areas to Sweden - bankrupted the country and turned Denmark from a major European power, into an almost destitute nation with little to no influence.

@guzelataroach4450

11 ай бұрын

denmark qas never a major european power

@Paveway-chan

11 ай бұрын

And less than a hundred years later, Charles XII of my own country of Sweden would land us in basically the same boat 😆 If only our nations had cooperated back then I wonder how things could've turned out

@MasterFatness

11 ай бұрын

​@@guzelataroach4450 Oh, but they were. Christian IV was supposedly the richest monarch of his time, before the 30 Years War intervention. Also, you can't put a tax on basically the entire Baltic trade without considerable maritime power and political influence. Earlier in history, during the Kalmar Union, Denmark effectively governed most of the Scandinavian territory, not to mention Greenland. Even earlier still, Knud the Great was King of Denmark, Norway and England, sometimes known as the North Sea Empire. In short, Denmark has been a major European power several times throughout history.

@MasterFatness

11 ай бұрын

@@Paveway-chan Indeed, if only. They did for a time during the Kalmar Union. And now we have a bridge between our countries. Also, over 10 thousand Danes own some sort of summer residence in Sweden. Nobody, neither Swede nor Dane, would have believed that 200 years ago.

@ae-jo5gc

11 ай бұрын

​@@MasterFatness the economy and fleet of King Christian IV combide with the military of Gustav II Adolf. What a sight it could have been.

There's something fascinating about a French cardinal supporting a protestant war against Catholics, while crushing a protestant revolt in his own lands.

@heberrodriguez3310

3 ай бұрын

Talk of hypocrisy 😂

@HungryLoki

14 күн бұрын

Just goes to show that religion is worth exactly *nothing*

30 years war would be such a good total war game

The escalation of the early Thirty Year's War wouldn't have been possibe if Emperor Ferdinand II had possessed his own army to fight his wars. Every time he had to borrow someone elses' power, it backfired in the form of more enemies. His dependence on Bavaria and Spain started Protestant resistance in the HRE (outside of Bohemia) and gave reason for foreign intervention in the first place. Using Wallenstein and compensating him with Protestant territory wasn't that helpful in the long run either. This war really teached rulers to build standing armies that they could actually pay and control.

@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506

11 ай бұрын

That's partly why the military organisation of the Empire was reformed after the treaty of Westphalia. Still, the resistance of the estates to more central power was always strong

lesson of the day: Don't inspect city defenses whilst being drunk.

You should made a complete video on the Thirty Years War.

@deut

11 ай бұрын

Yaaaass

I've watched a ton of videos on the 30 years war, and read a lot to try to figure out the HRE ( as well as a lot of Paradox Games ), but this video is one of the best. Your maps showing the various territories of the various interests are really clear and they make it clear why battle X happened at place Y. Thanks for your contribution to the study of one of histories most brutal wars

Retreating to the islands and relying on the navy to keep the enemy at bay and eventually drag things out until a satisfactory peace is brokered is a classic Danish strategy.

@JanBruunAndersen

10 ай бұрын

Well... You need to have the weather with you. It did not work when the Swedes advanced through Germany, up Jutland, and crossed the frozen belts to Sealand and laid siege to Copenhagen.

@morriganmhor5078

10 ай бұрын

Works only if you won´t get ice on those sunds.

Christian IV of Denmark was a prince of the HRE as Duke of Holstein. He was descended from the German House of Oldenburg, which had ruled Denmark since 1448. His wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, they were all German princesses. At the court in Copenhagen, German was spoken more than Danish. These were probably all reasons why Christian IV was so interested in what was going on in Germany.

I am from Vienna Austria and used to live near the "Wallensteinplatz" a public square named after him . I had a History teacher in school who told us his story and this is what got me interested in history . Such an interesting story and contradictory character

I know that there is a need to simplify to keep the video on point but the swedish danish war in the lappland was not really about the sound toll, (that's what they fought about in the south) but about the taxation rights of the native nomadic sampi poulation, because the borders between Norway and Sweden weren't defined both sides extorted taxes from the same population. The complicated terrain and the non-developed infrastructure wouldn't have allowed a profitable trade over the scandic mountains. Overall a very interesting and educating video, looking forward to the continuation of this series!

Slight mistake at 15:00. The map shows the city of Bielefeld, which we all know does not exist.

@tomaszmurzyn9123

11 ай бұрын

Is this some kind of german joke about city that exist but not for memes or what?

@10gamer64

11 ай бұрын

@@tomaszmurzyn9123 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy

@zacharydurocher4085

11 ай бұрын

That’s what the Freemasons want you to think.

@tomaszmurzyn9123

11 ай бұрын

@@10gamer64 as i assumed xD

@Emil.Fontanot

10 ай бұрын

​@@tomaszmurzyn9123yeah, we have something similar in Italy.

I was waiting this video for a while, a proper animated video covering this phase of the conflict. Keep up the amazing work!

this is legit my new fave series now. so amazing and eye opening. i love how you guys tried to connect all the major events together.

Thank you for always bringing content with so much quality❤

Incredible documentary as always, thank you!

Excellent video, thank you!

Finally, I was waiting for you to take out this part, which is usually the most ignored part of the war in documentaries, it is surprising how disastrous the Danish intervention was, although the solutions that Ferdinand II found to deal with a problem instantly created many others and it is true that as they said about Anibal: "you know how to win the battles, but not the war" (in his case it would be knowing that others win their battles, but not doing what is necessary to lower tensions). I would love for you to make a video explaining more in depth about the composition of Christian IV's Danish army and why, unlike the Swedish case, it ended up being so inefficient.

Amazing video as always, hope to see more

Always quality, thanks lads.

LOVE THESE VIDEOS. Please more

Once again interesting maps, animations, explanations, and informations... 👍👍

Great work ! I can't wait for more content about 30 y war.

Love your videos

In the words of King Christian himself, a few days after Lutter: 'Vi mistede slaget. General Fuchs var mere død end levende' 'We lost the battle. General Fuchs was more dead than alive'

Fantastic video.

Great video

Please provide option to directly thank you financially for all your great work

Patiently waiting for me Thirty Years War content

You should create a play list of all the videos in this series and also all the videos you made about many of the sieges at the end of the video

A very good account of the Danish intervention and the reasons behind it which is often overlooked. Though I would argue that Wallenstein was also a great general whose 'defeat' ,later at Lutzen was not a defeat but rather a tactical withdrawal from a bloody stalemate.

Yes, finally we're getting into the interesting phases of the war! Hyped!

@Mude-wv9bj

11 ай бұрын

Every phase is interesting.

@cjclark1208

11 ай бұрын

@@Mude-wv9bj economics drives politics, politically influential individuals drive war.

Excellent!

thank you my friend, you have a fantastic channel!

I love this series

Bravo !

"It need not have happened and it settled nothing worth settling." Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War, 1938.

05:17 different painters, different years, I know. But it is still funny that the son looks as if he were his father's father.

I love your videos. Though sometimes I think it lacks a bit more insight in the Spanish point of view of the war. There a lot of excelent articles and books about Madrid participation in this war here in Spain. Of course I understand it could be because language restrictions.

very good. ty

very nice

You've already covered La Rochelle and 's-Hertogenbosch, will you cover the other sieges too?

The first time I see my hometown play a notable role in a history video.

Keep it up

9:31 can you give the name of Robert Monroe memoire?

There is a slight mapping glitch by Flanders and France’s coastline. Edit at 0:31

Omg Christian IV at the Battle of Lutter is one of the most pathetic loses I have ever seen. Poor soldiers having such incompetent leader. In general his whole "campaign" is an extreme failure. Waiting until enemy raises more troops and then leaving army alone in the most important hour. Unbelivable.

@masoodvoon8999

11 ай бұрын

He took the quotation "Professionals talk logistics, amateurs strategy" too literally.

@wojtek1582

11 ай бұрын

@@masoodvoon8999 Hahahaha, nice one :)

@notalecguinness3221

11 ай бұрын

​@@masoodvoon8999 Personally caring for the supply train while your army is in heavy fighting might also count as a misunderstood approach of "Leading From Behind" :D But still less pathetic than Archduke Leopold Wilhelm as Spanish commander at Lens in 1648 who supposedly prayed for victory and then left the battlefield to his deputy Jean de Beck before the fighting even began. At least Kings and Generals claimed he did in their video (I never found actual confirmation, so he might not be a true rival to Christian IV in terms of questionable leadership)

@gustav331

11 ай бұрын

Christian had fallen off his horse and down a seven metre deep hole a few months prior at Hameln. He suffered from a fractured skull and a concussion, neither of which were treated. In order to quell the pain he started drinking. This explains quite a bit of his behaviour.

@monkey2.092

11 ай бұрын

If you enjoy spectacular military losses I invite you to learn more about Danish battles. We so consistently snatch devastating defeats from the clutches of victory that it's a miracle we still exist as a nation.

Just to say, regarding the use by armies of local resources, it seems strange to speak of anyone inventing such a stratagem: it is a constant of warfare in any context or period, unless there are specific, forceful prohibitions in place (religious, for example).

Theres some corrections to this, only 2min in. King Chr IV of denmark wasnt the richest, he was running on borrowed money, whilst being in control of the baltic sea route. He controlled both helsingør and helsingborg, effectively cutting the route in half, and anyone who wanted to pass the strait , øresund, had to pay toll. A toll that went into the army and the capitol where Chr IV conducted/constructed a lot of prestigeous projects that til this day is defining parts of the beauty of copenhagen. But he ran the entire country into banktrupcy by his actions, and calling him the richest in europe is a truth with modification

11:05 that's the very definition of having all bad traits on a bad heir in CK3 haha

Can the Thirty Years' War be counted as the actual First World War? After all, the conflict spilled outside of Europe as well.

@cseijifja

11 ай бұрын

If there were american or asian beligwrents probably , but since there werent , then no.

@erikdk321

11 ай бұрын

It was only really a European war

@yannickbaroue

11 ай бұрын

I think the real WWI is the 7 years war

@PoetofHateSpeech

11 ай бұрын

@@cseijifja lol No, Americans don't count

@PoetofHateSpeech

11 ай бұрын

@cseijifja And I guess you haven't heard of WW1...America doesn't really count there, and that was a world war..

Well, if there's ONE thing we can say wiht absolute certainty about the 30 years war it's this: It was bloody, confused mess.

@Pheonixco

11 ай бұрын

I can see that he's laying it out as simply as possible and its STILL hard to follow, so much going on with so many different sides.

Christian 4 was probably the biggest drunkard in the history of Danish drunkards! Not surprisingly, he was a terrible general. He is also the only known king ever to have a eye shot out in a naval battle- the splinter they dragged out of his skull, and his bloody shirt is still on display in Copenhagen. Oh and he also managed to produce 20 children and bankrupt Denmark. For some strange reason that defies logic he is the second most beloved Danish monarch, only behind Margrethe 2.

@dominicguye8058

2 ай бұрын

They don't have a lot of good options

@proof4469

2 ай бұрын

​@dominicguye8058 exactly lmao. One of the more mediocre, milquetoast kingdoms in the history of Europe

Toughest video to see to the end, being a Dane 😭

Richelieu could be france's bismark

@MyVanir

11 ай бұрын

Bismarck was Germany's Richelieu.

@BlaBla-pf8mf

11 ай бұрын

Richelieu is overrated.

@squeaky206

11 ай бұрын

​@@MyVanir Bismarck unified an entire country with animosity from other political figures of the time, domestic and foreign. Richelieu stabilized the country, besieged a major Protestant stronghold and cucked Villiers so hard with Spain that he got shanked in a bar. So both men were giants of their time, a man who united all the disparate German states into one powerful federal confederation. Richelieu made France a power to be reckoned with and laid the blocks for centralization after Louis XIII died and his son Louis XIV "The Sun King" took over.

How is the track called from 17:18 to 18:47 (Battle of Lutter)?

Denmark never recovered from Christian the Clown.

@jesperengelbredt

10 ай бұрын

I would say Denmark is doing pretty damn well these days...

@Shelmerdine745

9 ай бұрын

@@jesperengelbredt Denmark today is not the Denmark before the Clown, clown. Denmark went from being an European superpower to a small country completely dependent on it’s neighbors.

Wallenstein was rich as heck when he died he had like 12 milion golden penies when he was assasinated by Ferdinand

The other nobles called him an upstart and yet he fielded his own separate army from the league.

@niklasmolen4753

9 ай бұрын

In all times, the hereditary rich have looked down on the nouveau riche.

@CMAzeriah

9 ай бұрын

@@niklasmolen4753 They should really change that view when they get their Armies decimated and he is the only guy to save their tuché.

How could Christian assume this would work out?

@hedgehog3180

10 ай бұрын

Because seemingly he wasn't actually that interested in fighting and was just looking for concessions. He was betting on being able to hold out longer than the Habsburgs.

Wallenstein ah yes.. The syphillis lord who obsessed with astrology superstition

@SandRhomanHistory

26 күн бұрын

best summary i've read, lol.

@iseeyou5061

17 күн бұрын

Why let a little disease get in the way to become one of the most infamous general of the Imperial? :v

@Albukhshi

Күн бұрын

"Syphilis Lord" sounds like a super-villain title...

7:23 17m sounds like a lot. What kind of ditch even is that?

@mackomako

3 ай бұрын

7m

@timkey_4542

Ай бұрын

​@@mackomako thats still quite some ditch

Yea it was pretty cool

Pwease do a video on the Tibetan Empire or Mycenae!

Weiter so du geile Sau

@zacharydurocher4085

11 ай бұрын

Hein ?

This has to be sponsored by Paradox...

i like the part when christian was so drunk on his horse inspecting the defenses that he fell off his horse into a ditch ahahah. Freakin Classic. Crazy how all these wars in Europe are happening while the Ottoman Empire is just chilling lol . Probably busy with Malta

@Martin-zg7hx

9 ай бұрын

Getting their ass handle in Malta more like, The Ottomans will never match the might of the ancient Rome! the east is weak!.

@leonardoantonini4464

9 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, the Ottomans were actively sowing unrest in the Eastern lands of the Emperor by supporting Betlhen Gábor, the pretender to the throne of Hungary. However, it would be fun to imagine what the hell would've happened if the Sultan just marched straight against Vienna while the Emperor had his hands full with the Danes, Swedes, Dutch and French... I forgot: the Ottomans were also busy with Poland-Lithuania at that point.

@laonch6073

9 ай бұрын

@@leonardoantonini4464 bro, there is only one thing that Christians and Protestant hate more than eachother: muslims. Nobody would have allowed the Ottomans to take Vienna. Moreover it would have probably eased the tensions amongst the empire and forced a truce to fight the common enemy

Wallenstein has arrived? Things are getting real now.

Baltic trade was more profitable than trade with the Americas?

@squeaky206

11 ай бұрын

Yep. Lots of timber and iron ore from Sweden. The Hansa had a monopoly on Baltic trade a few centuries ago but eventually were forced out by leaders after making the wrong bets on who would win the war of Swedish independence. So they got the boot. But Baltic trade was still lucrative and less dangerous anyway.

@kalterverwalter4516

11 ай бұрын

Yes the Dutch called their Baltic grain trade the mother of all trades.

@Leo-ok3uj

11 ай бұрын

And by a lot, unless you were Spain (with the mining of silver and gold) or Portugal (with the slave farming of cash crops) the american trade was not profitable since the only serious option were the (at the time) poor thirteen colonies (Spain and Portugal didn’t allowed other countries to trade with their colonies), this is why the American trade was bad at the time, Justin and Kalter already said why the Baltic trade was good (a lot of timber for boats, a lot of iron for weapons, and a lot of grain for people)

It was Wallenstein who occupied Jutland btw

In Denmark Christian IV is hailed as a great king for his building projects and beating Sweden. I, as a military historian, always really disliked him for his overly ambitious adventure in The Holy Roman Empire. Especially as the consequences was to eventually lose Skåne in a war between weakened Denmark and strengthened Sweden.

@arielquelme

Ай бұрын

Interesting insight

Oh yes my ancestor making me feel insignificant again😅

@zacharydurocher4085

11 ай бұрын

👍🏼

community discord when ?

22:45 Which siege of Danzig is referred to here?

@SandRhomanHistory

11 ай бұрын

1628 blockade. there several (unsuccessful) sieges from 1626-29.

@pawekokot1157

10 ай бұрын

True name is Gdansk

@timkey_4542

10 ай бұрын

​@@pawekokot1157since?

@nikobellic570

10 ай бұрын

​@@pawekokot1157 cities across central and eastern Europe have multiple names in different languages. It is okay to call it Danzig historically, but not today

@Stripedbottom

9 ай бұрын

@@pawekokot1157 Danzig (modern day Gdansk). We don't call Constantinople Istanbul either when referring to medieval stuff before the Turkish conquest, that would be idiotic.

"Died soon agter the marriage" How convenient lol

Based

From where do you get your maps?

@MelkromisteinWeeb

11 ай бұрын

I think they're made in Inkarnate

@mihovilraboteg6160

11 ай бұрын

@@MelkromisteinWeeb thx

@MonkeyspankO

11 ай бұрын

Good question! I was always curious about that.

These people got along as well as members of the US Congress. Religion, power, money and politics...and minimal morality.

Wallenstein was the Prigozhin of his time and Tilly was the Shoigu of his time. But who is the Gustavus Adolphus of our time?

@timkey_4542

Ай бұрын

Rn Macron seems to have potential

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"Albrecht Wallenstein" was born & raised as a Bohemian Protestant, how could he so easily turned his back on Country & Faith..

@holgerdanske2219

11 ай бұрын

Money

@recoil53

11 ай бұрын

And what does either have to do with profit?

@michimatsch5862

11 ай бұрын

It's almost never about country at this time. Nationalism didn't really exist at the time at least not as we imagine it.

@kingofcards9516

11 ай бұрын

Good.

@somedude5951

11 ай бұрын

Good question. I've met several protestant raised folk that left Protestantism. My impression is, that the Protestant theology has some imperfections, that should be addressed. Jesuits will never allow such a thing to happen, and sabotage it where they can.

Hot take: it was always about power politics. Religion is also about power politics.

Wallenstein did nothing wrong

Common Imperial Catholic W

@elemperadordemexico

11 ай бұрын

Based

@ethanwhitney6168

11 ай бұрын

Needs to make a return today.

@HaloFTW55

10 ай бұрын

Is this why the Protestant forces offer Magdeburg Quarter to Imperial Forces later?

The battle of Lutter was lost by the Lutherans? Meh!

😍😍😍😍

Unfortunatley the Danish were only able to fight for 6 hours at a time.

Christian IV was an demoralized opportunist

Wallenstein was a kind of "Wagner" type.

@dlugi4198

9 ай бұрын

far better businessman tho

@anon2034

8 ай бұрын

Real mercs.

Borders are quite terrible

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Poor Wallenstein - murdered by the order of the "emperor"... He was "da shit" back in th day. Oh, btw - the danes at this time was a big joke and started losing wars to Sweden, losing 50% of it's territory... Skåne, Halland, Blekinge.

@jonasnee

11 ай бұрын

lol big joke, sweden also lost wars, and got bailed out by France in the Scanian war. realistically it could have gone both ways a lot of times, and sweden was nowhere as competent as you think.

@elemperadordemexico

11 ай бұрын

Wallenstein shouldn't have been trying to go behind the emperor's back and betray him. Emperor Ferdinand did nothing wrong

@gustav331

11 ай бұрын

Skåne, Halland and Blekinge wasn't 50% of Danish territory, and Sweden didn't win a war against Denmark after 1658 - except for the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1814.

@guycalabrese4040

11 ай бұрын

@@gustav331 Hi! Look up "Freden i Roskilde". Denmark lost 50% of it's territory to Sweden and it formed the frontiers we know today in a large extent. Skåne being the biggest loss since it was the "grainary" of Denmark with the most fertile farming earth. Denmark became a second rate shit country after this. Denmark not losing to Sweden after 1658? Did you drink too much Tuborg? 1676 - Denmark tried to retake the valuable Skåne, but got rear ended at the battle of Lund. 1710 the danes tried again, but got severely rear ended at the battle of Helsingborg by a swedish rag tag shit army marching in to battle in wooden clogs... Please... Denmark was a thing in the middle ages, then... Nothing.

@gustav331

11 ай бұрын

​@@guycalabrese4040 No, Skåneland was not 50% of Denmark's territory. You just need to look at a map to realise that. It was about 33%, as it made up one third of the traditional provinces of Denmark - Jutland, Sjælland and Skåne. And that's not even counting Denmark's territories in Schleswig, Holstein and Denmark's possession of Norway. The Treaty of Roskilde was in 1658. Denmark's only loss after 1658 was, as I've mentioned above, in 1814, when the entire continent of Europe was converging on our southern border. Sweden lost Bornholm and Trondhjem Len in 1660 after your failed assault on Copenhagen in February of 1659 and the Swedish defeat at Nyborg in November of 1659. The Scanian War was a definite loss for Sweden, as you were forced to cede Eastern Pomerania to our Brandenburger allies. The Battle of Lund was not decisive as both armies were completely battered - neither the Danish nor the Swedish armies were able to commence any operations afterwards, as they were both too weak. The war therefore continued for four more years. The Scanian War was mostly a war of sieges, and Lund didn't change that. Control of the sea was decisive, however, and thanks to the Danish victory at Køge Bay in 1677 we had firmly established our naval supremacy in the Baltic. Danish forces held Gotland, Western Skåne, Bohuslen, Bremen-Verden and Swedish Pomerania occupied at the end of the war, and Sweden was only saved by the intervention of France: The Netherlands had left the war in 1678, and in 1679 a French army marched in and occupied the Danish Duchy of Oldenburg. Sweden lost the Great Northern War quite spectacularly, and Denmark achieved its main war aim of annexing the Holstein-Gottorp (a Swedish puppet state) territories in Schleswig. I would encourage you to read about what happened to Stenbock's army, by the way, since you mentioned Helsingborg. He and his entire army marched into Danish captivity after the Siege of Tønning in 1713. Sweden lost 15.000 men and their best general. Sweden would not win a major engagement against Denmark again after Gadebusch in 1712, but would instead go from defeat to defeat. First at Stralsund in 1715, then Wismar in April 1716, then Karl XII's bungled invasion of Norway in 1716, and then his second, fatal and failed attempt to conquer Norway in 1718. The only reason that Denmark didn't also annex Swedish Pomerania was, again, the intervention of France. Sweden could only ever fight with French help and subsidies, something that Denmark didn't have the benefit of. I might also mention that Stenbock was not fighting the best of Denmark's army at Helsingborg. He was facing a lot of peasant militia troops, since most of the best of Denmark's regiments were fighting in the War of Spanish Succession on the side of Marlborough and Prince Eugene. These troops didn't return to Denmark until just after Gadebusch in 1712. Skåne was not the grainary of Denmark. That's a common myth. Only southern Skåne is fertile. The rest of Skåne, like Gønge Herred, is full of woodlands and not very fertile at all. Funen, Lolland, Eastern Schleswig and Western Sjælland have much better soil, and Denmark continued to be an agrarian powerhouse after the loss of Skåne. Sweden, on the other hand, has never been able to fully supply itself with foodstuffs. Denmark has never struggled with that, despite the loss of Skåne. This is why over 100.000 Swedes emigrated to Denmark in the 1800s - in order to escape the poor, starving, dump of a country that Sweden was at the time. This is also the reason why Sweden was on the brink of revolution in 1917, and why so many Swedes emigrated to America. Only few Danes went to America, since Denmark was rich. Skåne was a poor, devastated province after the Scanian War, by the way. 20-40% of Scanians emigrated to Sjælland after the Scanian War, and the countryside had been destroyed. The population of Skåne decreased by more than 50.000 inhabitants between 1658 and 1720 - and this was during a time period when population growth could be explosive. By your own logic Sweden was a thing for about 90 years between 1630 and 1720 and then... nothing. Here's a map of soil fertility in Europe, by the way: soil.copernicus.org/articles/4/267/2018/soil-4-267-2018-f07.png

Danish history is full of these humiliating events constantly getting clowned by all of Europe. Its sad that the peak of the Danish military was during the viking period and it just went downhill from there.

@jonasjrgensen1374

9 ай бұрын

Youre wrong about the last part. Denmark was a Superpower in Europe until the 17th century, starting in the Viking Age, after the defeat in the 30 years war and the wars lost to the swedes.

@basileus-pr6jh

9 ай бұрын

Nah, during the 11th to 16th century. Denmark dominated Scandinavia throughout the Middle Ages

@Alex-yz6uq

9 ай бұрын

@@basileus-pr6jh Not really

@hoegild1

9 ай бұрын

Very true..

@jonasjrgensen1374

9 ай бұрын

@@Alex-yz6uq yes they did.

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The Swedes did it better

@LarsOrly

11 ай бұрын

Ofc we did, the danish state at the point in time was a largely medieval clusterfuck, and their king financed the entire boondoggle on his own.

I hate any form of nationalism with a passion but although the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak: I can not deny feeling a pang of pride seeing how my tiny nation the Netherlands managed to preserve independence while wedged in between vastly larger and more powerful political entities. Edit: Maurice of Orange? I am almost 100% sure I've heard you call him by his proper name (Maurits) before, perfectly pronounced as well. Why use the English version?

@Rayan-mz2co

10 ай бұрын

Wait if you hate nationalism why do you consider yourself a part of "nation" and even feel pride some kind of pride?

@petertimowreef9085

10 ай бұрын

@@Rayan-mz2co Because the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I don't want to be nationalistic because thinking the land you were born in is special just because you were born there is dumb. But I still feel this human emotion or instinct to take pride in the accomplishments of your own tribe.

@HansWurst1569

10 ай бұрын

Patriotism is okay. You dont have to listen to the world today and confuse patriotism with nationalism. Patriotism is just the love of ones own country. Nationalism is viewing ones own country better than anyone elses. Mostly based on hatred for the other country rather the love for ones own.

@petertimowreef9085

10 ай бұрын

@@HansWurst1569 "Patriotism is just the love of ones own country. " And why do you love that particular country? Because you were born there. If you were born somewhere else, you'd love that country. Don't you see how it's just pure instinctual tribalism?

@zacharythode3601

10 ай бұрын

And what is wrong with that? What’s wrong with loving your country? I just don’t get the modern European apathy for their own countries and disdain for anybody who has patriotic fervor. If you don’t like the place you live you should move somewhere you love.

stop bully

interesting accent...can say German words great so I imagine German? Pronunciation in English needs a little work but we get what was said. War being pronounced like Waw is weird, soft r at the end and all...and char AK terize when saying characterize. So leads me to think German even more. nice video!

@Loobyrex

11 ай бұрын

They have a german channel too but i think the are from switzerland

@petertimowreef9085

10 ай бұрын

I disagree. All of us already know how to speak English, or we wouldn't be here. English is such an over-used language on the internet, it defines our perspective. I think it's fucking awesome that finally here's a channel that can properly pronounce German, French and even Dutch words.

@CG-eh6oe

10 ай бұрын

@@Loobyrex Yes, the accent is very clearly swiss (plus they can actually pronounce swiss names which most germans cant)

@spookytooth2044

9 ай бұрын

@@petertimowreef9085I’m English and I agree with you 100%!