#Thirty Years War

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Battle scene from the Thirty Years' War by Werner Wilhelm Gustav Schuch

[mapsontheweb]

Population losses in the Thirty Years' War

[bantarleton]

French soldiers of the Thirty Years War by Giorgio Albertini, for the forthcoming Helion book “French Armies of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648” by Stéphane Thion. The upper figure is a musketeer c. 1628 - 1635, and the lower an ensign of the Gardes Françaises between 1620 and 1630.

[victusinveritas]

Alicja Porowiec

Photo by Piotr Müller.

[memories-of-ancients]

Imperial Masterpiece: The Battle of Nordlingen 1634

[animanightmate]

I’ve not been putting out updates for these every time I add a new chapter, because so far they’ve been quite short and people would presumably be “who is this dude and what is he doing in the Muskieverse?!” but now his little journey is becoming more plot-relevant with some action and a new couple of characters.

Chapters: 11/24 Fandom: The Musketeers (2014) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Canon Era, Canon Compliant, Wartime, Franco-Spanish War, Thirty Years War, Embedded Images, Letters, Correspondence, Diary/Journal, Epistolary, monastic life, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Travel, Blood, Blood and Injury, implied trauma Series: Part 50 of All For One and, well, you know the rest..., Part 37 of All For One At War, Part 22 of All For One Correspondence Summary:

I believe I may have been brought here for a purpose, but I pray God guide me, for I do not know what it may be.

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Another instalment in the long series of wartime correspondence (and other pieces based around the black box that is the Musketeers during the Spanish War).

[jjsward]

Musketeers in loose formation

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[theartofmetal]

83. Drei Dezennien - Hâl (Black Metal, 2023)

Art by Esaias van de Velde: "Nachtelijk Gevecht", 1623

This album is most likely about the Thirty Years' War which took place in Europe from 1618-1648. The war killed something between 4,5 - 8 million civilians and soldiers.

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Croats are done.

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, in Brno, South Moravia

First there was a Gothic church, but it was destroyed by Swedish troops during the siege of Brno in 1645. In 1679 the new Baroque building was finished.

[illustratus]

The Death of Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden at the Battle of Lützen, 16 November 1632 by Friedrich Kaiser

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Germany in 1618-1648

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Original and replica 17th century arms, armour and equipment, mostly from the Thirty Years war, in the Austrian Military History Museum.

[victusinveritas]

17th century German gun-mace (gun-club, boomstick) Four barrels, four times the fun.

[memories-of-ancients]

Why the Thirty Years War was so devastating

from Kings and Generals