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It is imperative that events which initiated and then shaped the outcome of the Thirty Years’ War be analyzed in immaculate detail before any conclusions are reached. Hence a concise summary of the events are relayed below: Incarnating itself in the early 17th century, The Thirty Years War was a series of conflicts within the Holy Roman Empire, which eventually led onto involving most of Europe. ... The war began in Bohemia. ... This brought on a bloody war involving the member states of the Holy Roman Empire including Austria, Bavaria, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany France, Sweden, England, Spain and a lot of small princely states and territories. ... At this point France, under the guidance of Cardinal Richelieu, entered the war on the Protestant side in a political rather than religious move. ... For the next 14 years fighting by French, Spanish, Swedish, and German troops went on in Germany, Italy, Flanders, and the Pyrenees. ... The war reduced the population of Germany by more than half. ... Thirty years of absolute brutality by man upon himself and his own creed, for one reason alone, power. The war was waged on strictly political grounds which had resulted from serious religious conflicts amongst the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. ... The five stages of the war are as below, where the Franco-Hapsburg war is further subdivided into four stages: · Bohemian War 1618-20: Austria defeated the Protestant rebels. · Palatinate War 1621-3: Catholic Bavaria defeated Protestant Upper Palatine and Spain and Holland renewed the revolt of the Netherlands. · Danish War 1624-9: Austrians and Bavarians defeated Holland and Denmark. |
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Title: Thirty Years War
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