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Historyzine 019: The Battle of Oudenarde

Posted on 2010-04-28 by jimmowatt

Historyzine’s retelling of The War of the Spanish Succession now reaches the year 1708 and the Battle of Oudenarde. The Duke of Burgundy and the Marshall Vendome make initial gains in the Spanish Netherlands moving swiftly to take control of … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 018: 1707

Posted on 2010-02-19 by jimmowatt

Historyzine now moves into the year 1707 in the saga of the War of the Spanish Succession. This year the allies are looking to attack Toulon and hopefully make more gains in the Spanish Netherlands. The Duke of Marlborough has … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 017: The Aftermath of Ramillies

Posted on 2010-01-29 by jimmowatt

Historyzine 17 features 1706 and the Aftermath of Battle of Ramilies as well as the relief of Turin in our War of the Spanish Succession section. In the linguistic history trivia bit we’ll be looking at a couple of printing … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 016 – Ramillies

Posted on 2009-11-04 by jimmowatt

This is Historyzine, Episode 16 featuring 1706 and the War of the Spanish Succession. In Spain, Lord Peterborough and the Archduke Charles are busily not speaking to each other when perhaps they should be putting Charles on the throne and … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 012: The Battle of Blenheim

Posted on 2008-08-27 by jimmowatt

In Historyzine 12 our main feature is 1704 and the battle of Blenheim. John Churchill (Duke of Marlborough) is rampaging around Bavaria with the Dutch, Hesse, Austrian, Hanoverian and English troops. Gathering against him under the command of Marshall Tallard, … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 011: The 2nd special from Oudenaarde

Posted on 2008-07-16 by jimmowatt

The 2nd special episode from the reenactment weekend of 12th, 13th of July 2008 in the town of Oudenaarde in Belgium. This was the 300th anniversary of the battle of Oudenaarde in which the forces of the Anglo Dutch Austro … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 009: The March to Blenheim

Posted on 2008-07-10 by jimmowatt

This issue features a review of the Richard Holmes book on Marlborough and in the section on the War of the Spanish Succession we look at the march of the allied troops across Europe and take a peek at some … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 008: War of the Spanish Succession 1703

Posted on 2008-05-28 by jimmowatt

It’s 1703 and all is not going well for the allies. Churchill’s ‘Great Design’ goes awry; the Hungarians revolt against the Empire and the Elector of Bavaria joins up with the French forces to directly threaten Vienna. This map should … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 006: Siege Warfare

Posted on 2008-02-07 by jimmowatt

In episode 6 of Historyzine we look at early 18th century sieges, the changing nature of warfare and some of the reasons behind the reticence to commit troops to a fully fledged battle in this War of the Spanish Succession. … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 005:1702, taking back the River Meuse

Posted on 2008-01-15 by jimmowatt

In episode 5 of Historyzine we have a review of the National Archives Podcast Series; Historical webby gems Harry Lamin’s war correspondence Here we go around Wakefield Prison’s Mulberry Bush. And Episode 5 of our series on The War of … Continue reading →

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