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| Thirty Years' War | |||||||||
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| Part of the European wars of religion and French–Habsburg rivalry | |||||||||
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| Anti-Imperial alliance prior to 1635[a] | Imperial alliance prior to 1635[b] | ||||||||
| Post-1635 Peace of Prague | Post-1635 Peace of Prague | ||||||||
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Combat deaths:[i] 110,000 in Swedish service[14] 80,000 in French service[15][j] 30,000 in Danish service[15] 50,000 other[15] |
Combat deaths: 120,000 in Imperial service[15] 30,000 in Bavarian service[15] 30,000 other[15] | ||||||||
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Military deaths from disease: 700,000–1,350,000[k] Total civilian dead: 3,500,000–6,500,000[16] Total dead: 4,500,000–8,000,000[17][18] | |||||||||
The Thirty Years' War[l] was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, and disease, while some areas of modern Germany experienced population declines of over 50%.[19] Related conflicts include the Eighty Years' War, the War of the Mantuan Succession, the Franco-Spanish War, the Torstenson War, the Dutch-Portuguese War and the Portuguese Restoration War.
The war was traditionally viewed as a continuation of the religious conflict initiated by the 16th-century Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1555 Peace of Augsburg attempted to resolve this by dividing the Empire into Lutheran and Catholic states, but over the next 50 years the expansion of Protestantism beyond these boundaries destabilised the settlement. However, while modern commentators accept differences over religion and Imperial authority were important factors in causing the war, they argue its scope and extent were driven by the contest for European dominance between Habsburg-ruled Spain and Austria, and the French House of Bourbon.[20]
Its outbreak is generally traced to 1618,[m] when Emperor Ferdinand II was deposed as king of Bohemia and replaced by the Protestant Frederick V of the Palatinate. Although Imperial forces quickly suppressed the Bohemian Revolt, his participation expanded the fighting into the Palatinate, whose strategic importance drew in the Dutch Republic and Spain, then engaged in the Eighty Years' War. Rulers like Christian IV of Denmark and Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden also held territories within the Empire, giving them and other foreign powers an excuse to intervene. The result was to turn an internal dynastic dispute into a broader European conflict.
The first phase from 1618 until 1635 was primarily a civil war between German members of the Holy Roman Empire, with support from external powers. After 1635, the Empire became one theatre in a wider struggle between France, supported by Sweden, and Emperor Ferdinand III, allied with Spain. This concluded with the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, whose provisions included greater autonomy within the Empire for states like Bavaria and Saxony, as well as acceptance of Dutch independence by Spain. The conflict shifted the balance of power in favour of France, and set the stage for the expansionist wars of Louis XIV which dominated Europe for the next sixty years.
Notes
[edit]- ^ States that fought against the Emperor at some point between 1618 and 1635
- ^ States that allied at some point between 1618 and 1635
- ^ Since officers were paid per soldier, numbers Reported frequently differed from Actual, i.e. those present and available for duty. Variances between Reported and Actual are estimated as averaging up to 25% for the Dutch, 35% for the French and 50% for the Spanish.[3] Most battles of the period were fought between opposing forces of 13,000 to 20,000 men; the numbers reflect Maximum at any one time and exclude citizen militia, who often formed a large proportion of garrisons.
- ^ All armies were multinational; an estimated 60,000 Scottish, English or Irish individuals fought on one side or the other during the period; based on an analysis of a mass grave discovered in 2011, fewer than 50% of "Swedish" forces at Lützen came from Scandinavia.[4]
- ^ Maximum in Germany, excludes 24,000 home defence[5]
- ^ Approved 120,000, actual 80,000 to 90,000[8]
- ^ 1640 figures for the Army of Flanders, when it was at its maximum strength; these are Reported numbers, so as mentioned elsewhere, the actual number of soldiers would have been considerably lower.[10] The Spanish army officially had more than 200,000 soldiers in 1640, but most were second line troops in garrisons elsewhere in Europe, not facing the Dutch.[11]
- ^ Parrott suggests many of these should be included in the figures for Imperial troops above, and argues estimates of irregular cavalry are in general massively overstated[12]
- ^ Wilson estimates a total of 450,000 combat deaths on all sides, the vast majority of whom were German. By one calculation, four times as many Germans died fighting for Sweden as Swedes, and so casualties are referred to as being "In service", rather than by nationality[13]
- ^ France lost another 200,000 to 300,000 killed or wounded in the related Franco-Spanish War[15]
- ^ Wilson estimates that three soldiers died of disease for every one killed in combat.[13]
- ^ German: Dreißigjähriger Krieg, pronounced [ˈdʁaɪ̯sɪçˌjɛːʁɪɡɐ kʁiːk]
- ^ Some commentators argue it began with the War of the Jülich Succession in 1609
References
[edit]- ^ Croxton 2013, pp. 225–226.
- ^ a b Heitz & Rischer 1995, p. 232.
- ^ Parrott 2001, p. 8.
- ^ Nicklisch et al. 2017.
- ^ a b Schmidt & Richefort 2006, p. 49.
- ^ Wilson 2009, p. 387.
- ^ Parrott 2001, pp. 164–168.
- ^ a b Van Nimwegen 2014, p. 166.
- ^ Parrott 2001, p. 61.
- ^ a b Parker 2004, p. 231.
- ^ a b Clodfelter 2008, p. 39.
- ^ a b Parrott 2001, p. 62.
- ^ a b Wilson 2009, p. 791.
- ^ Parker 1997, p. 173.
- ^ a b c d e f g Wilson 2009, p. 790.
- ^ Wilson 2009, p. 787.
- ^ Outram 2002, p. 248.
- ^ Wilson 2009, pp. 4, 787.
- ^ Parker 1997, p. 189.
- ^ Sutherland 1992, pp. 589–590.