{"id":47537,"date":"2019-04-28T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47537"},"modified":"2019-09-06T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T12:57:39","slug":"the-battle-of-lutzen-1632-the-30-years-war-in-swedish-with-english-sub-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/28\/the-battle-of-lutzen-1632-the-30-years-war-in-swedish-with-english-sub-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of L\u00fctzen &#8211; 1632 &#8211; The 30 Years War (in Swedish, with English sub-titles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xRpk4ESKum0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Gripen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 3 Dec 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the bloodiest battles of the Thirty Years War. Sweden vs. the Holy Roman Empire. A mass grave has been found, with the victims from the battle. Are they Swedish\/Finnish soldiers or German mercenaries? <\/p>\n<p>(This Swedish documentary has English subtitles).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Blah b<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>2 years ago<\/em><br \/>\nThis documentary is often painful to watch, the way inexperienced modern people with no sense of empathy project their values onto those times. They weren&#8217;t &#8220;defenseless men standing still&#8221;. Armies had learned the hard way that massed musket fire won battles. If everybody is looking for cover and looking out for themselves, you can never operate such rigid units.<\/p>\n<p>So the individual soldier was harshly drilled to indeed stand still even with cannonballs tearing through his unit, or another unit standing 30-80 meters away. Because if individuals acted as individuals, the battle would be lost and the army would be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>But when that machine operated, it would win battles. The system invented by Maurice of the Netherlands ensured that if you were attacking a group of musketeers, every 20-25 seconds, they could deliver a crushing volley that can kill or injure 10-25% of a another unit, that means they only needed 2-3 salvos to achieve a local victory. Untrained units would literally never touch a musketeer, as his unit would&#8217;ve routed the attackers before they got within touching range.<\/p>\n<p>Also there were no standing armies, there was no national identity as such. Mercenaries were totally acceptable. Mercenaries could become very loyal and reliable if paid on time [and] consistently, and would easily crush national armies that usually lacked the routine of professional soldiers. Loyalty and your identity was constructed differently. It would&#8217;ve been perfectly normal for me to utterly hate and maybe kill my neighbours if they were of a different religion. Otherwise, a Swedish protestant from far away was an ally with the right ideas. I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to understand him and everything would be alien about him, but I&#8217;d consider him a friend, and Catholics from the next village where I&#8217;d lived all my life would be enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the king comes around and says the Catholics are friends. Because the king is appointed by God who runs the world on a day to day [basis], and you obey without question. If the king says it&#8217;s so, that means God himself agrees and says it&#8217;s so, and you don&#8217;t question God. Loyalty until death is about the least you owed your king in those days.<\/p>\n<p>People who can&#8217;t understand how such things worked historically, really should not be making documentaries&#8230;\ufeff <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gripen Published on 3 Dec 2015 One of the bloodiest battles of the Thirty Years War. Sweden vs. the Holy Roman Empire. A mass grave has been found, with the victims from the battle. Are they Swedish\/Finnish soldiers or German mercenaries? (This Swedish documentary has English subtitles). 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