Send us a text In this episode, we watch Europe's diplomatic world turn upside down. For more than two centuries, the bourbon kings of France and the Hapsburg emperors of Austria had defined themselves inn opposition to one another, fighting over Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and anything else that came within arm's reach. But by the 1750's the od rivalry was non longer useful. the loss of Silesia had shake Austria to it's core, France found itself stumbling into colonial confrontations ...
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Send us a text In this episode, we watch Europe's diplomatic world turn upside down. For more than two centuries, the bourbon kings of France and the Hapsburg emperors of Austria had defined themselves inn opposition to one another, fighting over Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and anything else that came within arm's reach. But by the 1750's the od rivalry was non longer useful. the loss of Silesia had shake Austria to it's core, France found itself stumbling into colonial confrontations ...
Send us a text In this episode, we watch Europe's diplomatic world turn upside down. For more than two centuries, the bourbon kings of France and the Hapsburg emperors of Austria had defined themselves inn opposition to one another, fighting over Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and anything else that came within arm's reach. But by the 1750's the od rivalry was non longer useful. the loss of Silesia had shake Austria to it's core, France found itself stumbling into colonial confrontations ...
Send us a text There was a brief dead spot around the 8:30 mark of Episode 5. I found it, fixed it and reuploaded the episode. Please feel free to send me any feedback like that when you find those things, but hopefully, I figure out how to do this at some point, ha ha ha ha! Enjoy!
Send us a text A neat plan met a messy world. We follow the Empire’s triangular strategy for 1755—Crown Point, Niagara, and Beauséjour—and watch how fog, friction, and human choices bent it into something far larger than a frontier war. It starts at sea, where Admiral Edward Boscawen’s strike against a French convoy near Newfoundland captured troops and sealed orders, guaranteed British control of vital Atlantic routes, and detonated the fiction of peace. That single decision rippled across c...
Send us a text In 1755, Britain decided to move its collnnia problem he od fashioned way- by sending a general. Major General Edward Braddock, veteran ion the Coldstream Guards and chosen of the Duke of Cumberland, arrived in Virginia with two regiments of regulars and an unshakable conviction that discipline and geometry could tame a continent. they could not... This episode follows Braddock's il fated march to Fort Duquesne - the road building, the supply chaos, and the infamous battl...
Send us a text In the summer of 1754, as French forts crept ever closer to the contested frontiers of North America, representatives from seven British colonies gathered at Albany, New York, to discuss a problem everyone could see coming- and few seemed eager to solve. The result was the Abany Congress, a rare moment of attempted cooperation in a world defined by jealousy, fear, and mutual suspicion. While emissaries negotiated with the Iroquois and delegates debated plans of defense, the sha...
Send us a text Step away from the powdered wigs and marble statues of Europe—the Seven Years' War began in the mud and mosquitoes of the American wilderness. Join us as we trek into the Ohio Country, a forgotten crossroads that sparked global conflict. The Ohio Country wasn't empty forest—it was prime real estate. Rivers connected in every direction like an 18th-century transportation hub, making it the most strategic territory in North America. The French needed it to connect their empire; ...
Send us a text The world of 1748 balanced precariously on the edge of chaos. The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle had technically ended the War of Austrian Succession, but as we explore in this first episode, it was less a peace treaty and more "like cramming eight angry cats into a sack, tying it shut and walking away." From this uneasy truce would emerge the Seven Years' War—a conflict Winston Churchill would later dub "the First World War." We journey across the chess board of 18th-century power...
Send us a text In this episode, we watch Europe's diplomatic world turn upside down. For more than two centuries, the bourbon kings of France and the Hapsburg emperors of Austria had defined themselves inn opposition to one another, fighting over Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and anything else that came within arm's reach. But by the 1750's the od rivalry was non longer useful. the loss of Silesia had shake Austria to it's core, France found itself stumbling into colonial confrontations ...
