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

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🚩 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.
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📢 Narrated by David McCallion
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📚 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)
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[@HistoryMarche]

🚩 Stop data brokers from exposing your information. Go to my sponsor aura.com/historymarche to get a 14-day free trial and see if your personal information has been compromised. 🚩 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.

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[@michaelmazowiecki9195]

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.

[@Youtubemicanal]

Also, some years before (1536), Francis I signed the Franco-Ottoman Alliance with Sultan Suleiman I. How far was the middle ages!

[@RushlockMedia]

Is this the Cardinal name used in Disney's live action The Three Musketeers? And or I presume the base story?

[@mussolini.axis.5705]

You know Yr stuff I'm a history teacher and I was or have been mistaken on this thanks 😮

[@michaelmazowiecki9195]

@@RushlockMedia Yes! He was Frances First Minister of State or Prime Minister, appointed by King Louis XIII, from 1624 to 1642 (his natural death). It was Cardinal Richelieu who laid the foundations for the dominant position of France in Europe for nearly 200 years to 1815.

[@michaelmazowiecki9195]

@@KZbinmicanal France saw the Habsburgs as a strategic threat to itself and Ottoman Turkey as a useful counter balance on tge basis that my enemy's enemy is my friend. Thus France refused to help the Popes and Habsburg Austria and Spain in their naval and land wars with the Ottoman Empire.

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[@scotttracy9333]

Correct, and let's not forget the narration skills ...

[@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.

[@skyhappy]

What a useless observation

[@Lotterywinnerify]

What a useless reply

[@33d672]

@@skyhappywhat a useless reply

[@williamromine5715]

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.

[@andreascovano7742]

I mean tactically sure, but strategically the swedes were moronic. They chose a battlefield with no good way to retreat

[@Emil.Fontanot]

Horn attacking the Tercios like an idiot was a good tactic?

[@julianscaeva4334]

@@andreascovano7742 Did they choose or was it chosen for them? Do you think that 400 years later we might have a better scope and understanding of what was a strategically sound move? Or might it be that at the time they made the choice that made most sense to them according to what they knew?

[@drew4564]

After they realized they reinforced the hill they should have stopped trying to attack it they literally sent them straight into kill zone again and again trying to take that hill

[@bjoardar]

They shouldn't have stopped at the 4th hill. Of course it would be re-inforced during the night. Just because the protestants wanted rest, doesn't mean the catholics did. I'm just reminded of the relief effort of Gallipoli several hundred years later, where the british re-inforcement, instead of securing the heights around their landing site, decided to let the soldiers play around on the beach and in the water. All while the Turkish surrounded them to become the proverbial "like shooting fish in a barrel". Both situations seem to me the same type of arrogance, that the enemy "was supposed to" act in the way the commanders assumed. As any modern gamer worth their salt can attest, capturing objectives ensures a much greater success rate on the overall situation, than simply trying to kill the enemy.

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[@DGordillo123]

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[@ImperatorHispania]

After the victory at Nördlingen, the catholic germans shouted loudly: "Long live Spain, which has given us victory and saved the Empire! Long live the bravery of the spanish!" Extract from the chronicle "El memorable y glorioso viaje del Infante Cardenal D. Fernando de Austria" of Diego de Aedo

[@SolidAvenger1290]

History definitely would have been altered had the Habsburgs recovered and won the Thirty Years' War. Would have given what Emperor Charles V had wanted for the Holy Roman Empire before the Great Reformation destroyed the unification of Europe and the creation of a superpower that was absolutely comparable to the USA during the 1940s. The Golden Empire was their last hope in this conflict with Sweden & it's allies. Just did a 45-page thesis on how both the HRE/Golden Empire and the US are more comparable than what most people think today.

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[@ASmith666]

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[@dragaoastro69]

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

[@Mendogology]

let me guess, you are spanish

[@dragaoastro69]

@@Mendogology portuguese, actually. 😁

[@Mendogology]

@@dragaoastro69 that's fair :) I guessed that you are spanish, because in Internet is quite popular to say "my nation soldiers were the best ones". But yeah, I must agree, tercios were quite outstanding military formation

[@IsaacRaiCastillo]

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.

[@TheKaiikai]

what a great contribution. The Spanish tercios(the best infantry in a century and a half) showed that they still had something to say, although their decline was near. Pdt: sorry for my english

[@IsaacRaiCastillo]

@@TheKaiikai De nada, amigo; siempre hay que compartir información que ayude a la gente a entender la realidad y no dejarse llevar por los prejuicios que se tiene sobre la historia de cada país. España no fue solo grande por haber descubierto América y sus riquezas, sino porque como lo hace Estados Unidos ahora, se necesita voluntad, además de ejércitos capaces de movilizarse y pelear de forma exitosa en todo el globo (encabezando la innovación militar), algo que fue hecho por primera vez en la historia por los españoles y también por los portugueses; hay que resaltar sus méritos, porque con la decadencia que estos países tuvieron a partir del siglo XIX en adelante, se les ve como incapaces (como si todo haya sido gracias a la suerte y no conseguido por su esfuerzo), cuando antes tenían a todos arrodillados bajo sus pies (incluyendo a todas las potencias que vinieron después de ellos y que temen en reconocer a sus antiguos rivales, por miedo a empañar su posterior gloria).

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[@arcuyus]

what a great watch, i really enjoyed the way this battle was written/presented

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[@nathanpalmer2391]

Historyverse is the best! Loved his contributions

[@Blaxkleric]

"Sacrifice to the algorithm" made. LOL!!! This was awesome. Thoroughly enjoyed the graphics for this one as it made understanding the battle really easy. Thanks for making it.

[@pib2008]

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,

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Thank you. Well done.

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Great video, thank you.

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[@JP-dh4mm]

Excellent as always

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awesome work as always ) especially interesting for me is politics-strategic overview before battle

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Great video!!!

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Keep ‘em coming!

[@darrenc8776]

Absolutely brilliant again

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Love your videos man! They always make my day! Can't wait For the return of the Anarchy!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@mowm88]

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

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[@shehansenanayaka3046]

Historymarche alwys my fav channel. I love all your docs. Specially the ones voiced by Alexander doddy. Anyway brilliant doc. Swedens after their leaders death the french enter the frey and the thirty years war becomes two powers war. Habsburgs vs bourbons . Brilliant one of my fav.

[@Paveway-chan]

Hope a video on the battle of Wittstock is to follow :D I love your style of narration.

[@sonstrwas1713]

Thx pls more of that

[@thisisbossi]

Garrison: "Hey these guys are here to save us! Should we help them?" "Nah."

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

I truly love me some Habsburg Victories! Thanks man!

[@phillip_iv_planetking6354]

Spanish Tercio greatness witnessed here

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Worth watching, interesting series of history 😊

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Great vid

[@MrMenuga]

very good video

[@gandalf1139]

Great video. We finally get to see some spanish tercios action.

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This is so nice damn!!

[@AJ-et3vf]

Great video! Thank you!

[@eqbal321a]

that was an exciting video, not slow or boring

[@davelucky77]

Sweden : we have artillery superiority. Also Sweden : Lets never use it, they will never see it coming.

[@antoniotorcoli702]

Exellent work. It would have been interesting to further detail the composition of the imperial army and of the spanish tercios. For instance the tercio Toralto was entirely composed by Neapolitans. The italian cavalry of Gambacorta was instrumental in defeating the swedish army.

[@Aginor88]

Intressant som vanligt.

[@superzombie92]

I'd like that this narration went on eternally.

[@NR-rv8rz]

Possible misread of the script at 3:23 The narrator says . . . 'Oxenstierna was 'now' fully trusted by his German allies'. Perhaps it was mean to be . . . 'Oxenstierna was 'not' fully trusted by his German allies'?

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I never thought I'd enjoy watching the carnage of battles fought by blocks led by portrait-bearing banners. I have even turned on notifications for this. 😅

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Woo pre premiere

[@David_Baxendale]

Interesting to see just how complicated the whole situation was. Catholic France becoming the main protector of the protestant german princes...

[@svekolj7534]

Eh not surprising at all, they allied with literally everyone in order to undermine HRE, including the Ottomans

[@marechaldepeteteiii3312]

More Thirty Years War please. And also can be a good idea, The Franco dutch War, and the Nine Years War. A very underrated period.

[@las_espannas]

The War of 80 Years too.

[@Ihavpickle]

A pleasure watching HistoryMarche as always!

[@LoganO122]

These re-tellings are always well produced. Here's my comment!

[@justincronkright5025]

When you have 2 armies on 2 sides, you generally ought to be aggressive & either do as much damage as possible as quickly as possible or take/deny important objectives with the time you have. When both armies do this without forcing full & decisive pitched battles, it will on its own be enough to increase the likelihood of failures occurring on behalf of the enemy. Or it will simply bleed them of resources & energy by forcing their attention towards as many places as possible (a combination of where the armies are... but also of where they could be heading next).

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Button smashing done

[@m.h_productions]

Great video, nice to see my country being covered :) Will you make a video on Battle of Lund 1676?

[@HistoryMarche]

Yes, I'll definitely do Lund

[@m.h_productions]

@@HistoryMarche YAY! :D I actually live just 30 minutes away from the battlefield.

[@andreasjonsson8075]

Tack!

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you supporting my content. So kind of you.

[@larskristiansen9158]

Great!

[@davidcunningham2074]

excellent

[@constantinexii8182]

Will you make a video on John II Komnenos, it would be very interesting an you would be the 1st big channel that has done a vodeo about him

[@theawesomeman9821]

Give the Swedes credit for dominating as long as they did.

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I enjoy your stuff so much I wait to cast it on my TV. Also I would like to do a one-time payment. Can you send the link to that, please?

[@augmas61]

Wow a so bloody battle...

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Really, it was a wonderful historical coverage of Nordlengen battles at 1633 ....thank you ( History Marche) channel for sharing this informative historical coverage...where super European powers supported Christians ✝️ doctrines wars for theirs political influenced on European content 30:22

[@lazarignjatovic7881]

Mr. David McCallion, best narrator l ever heard.

[@cristi2075]

Could you make a video covering the battle of the Milvian bridge?

[@HistoryMarche]

Working on it now actually.

[@arthur-yq4ic]

i just finished a thic book about this topic from herfried münkler this whole war was so devastating end never ending

[@matthewg8922]

Please do the battle of Adwa!

[@nathanfilomeno6143]

hello, how do you do this simulation of battles with rectangles? Is it a program?

[@sourabhmayekar3354]

Nice

[@TinseraJantix]

I love the word bubbles making side comments about what is being narrated. 😂

[@TheStrategos392]

King Gustavus literally built a Swedish war machine.

[@SolidAvenger1290]

One that King Charles XII/Carolus Rex would later use in the Great Northern War, and indirectly inspired both Napoleon & later the Germans to create today's modern warfare of combined arms. Sweden & France was where early blitzkrieg tactics were born during the 17th to 19th centuries amid the military science revolution

[@johanlindqvist9308]

And the core of the deep state is still in Sweden

[@Shaadferman]

Can you make a video about a modern battle

[@pggaming3457]

Hey could anyone tell the name of the background music around 13:01

[@pUTPOCKETRY]

Horn: "I wasn't even supposed to be here today!"

[@Bouncy83]

I'm just reading along on wikipedia for more in depth info and I'm afraid you have Wallenstein killed a day early in your video (12:05). Otherwise great as always :)

[@user-fi3oh3qh7e]

What happened to Hannibal series? It will continue or not?

[@BlueGoblin1]

By my understanding at this point, the Swedish armies and other protestant commanders were seeking plunder to retire after the war. I personally would love to play a war game where we can see how things might have played out if The Lion of the North did not die so soon. I imagine He would have eventually been matched well as the Catholics adapted to his tactics. But the experience of his men and the sheer gravitas of the Lion. I imagine he would not have been lacking support for total war for some time.

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[@sjtimmer7]

Time for a video on the 80 year war.

[@aprioriaposteriori3676]

Even though Horn was a relative good and based general he lacked much of the creative thinking that otherwise was rather high in the Swedish camp. Under Adolphus steady eyes he could shine but with Bernhard it never came to much, although Horn tried without success to change the tactics and overall strategy of this particular battle. With Horn locked away as a prisoner Sweden got more solid commanders taking over, first the brilliant Banér and then Torstenson. Both legends and worthy successors of Gustavus Adolphus. Thanks for the video and I hope you in the future will look into these interesting characters. Warriors into their bare bones both of them and with very fascinating lives.

[@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617]

Horn launched far to many unsupported attacks on Allbuch, to many small units sent to assault just one of the redoubts. He should have assault two simultaneously with his cavalry to engage the far southern cavalry and the right flank. Hindsight but small unit tactics don’t work unsupported.

[@ae-jo5gc]

Habsburg defeat Sweden at Nördling. Johan Baner: And I took it personally.

[@Prometosermejor]

I think the nerdy StarWars comment is just marvelous! Philip IV is the new Darth Vader.

[@wendelcarvalhocoutinho8495]

Se ele tivesse tomado todas as partes elevador ou esperando os reforços talvez teria ganhado a batalha, mas gosteia da manobra da retirada fingida

[@mikenolan9440]

I wonder how long the thirty year war went on for

[@Youbeentagged]

"Oh look, the enemy has fortified the hill. Let us attack it head-on, uphill, with no almost artilery support."

[@serenisma3402]

0:19 missed the chance to say through a foreign land