Hanging with History

War of the Austrian Succession


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Say goodbye to peace.

We cover the War of Jenkins Ear.  The excitement of the capture of Portobello, Rule Brittania is written in celebration.

This little war merges into the War of the Austrian Succession.  We see the rise of Prussia and the beginning of the Frederick the Great legend in his struggle against the hero Queen Maria Theresa.  

We cover the war at sea, with a fairly decisive British victory.  We cover the war from the French perspective which is dominated by the victories in Flanders in the minds of the French because of the personal presence of Louis XV.  But France is in fact defeated by the cost of the expensive fighting in Italy and the loss of trade.  

And of course, France tries to invade England, and a massive storm instantly sinks 10 transports and damages the rest practically the instant they leave the harbor, we discuss possible reasons for the fact that this is the universal result of invasion attempts of specifically England from 1590-1744.  What could possibly account for this?

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Hanging with HistoryBy Harald Hansen

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