A History of Europe, Key Battles

29:19 | May 20th, 2016

Intro is the Russian Presidential Address of 2014. Then an outline of different perspectives on Ukrainian and Russian History, and next a description of the geography and early history of the Black Se...Show More

27:41 | Jan 8th

Siege of Vienna 1683 www.historyeurope.net www.patreon.com/historyeurope Music: Palestrina (Adoramus te Christe); Elgar (March of the Mogul Emperors)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out in...Show More

25:35 | Jan 1st

Build-up to Siege of Vienna 1683 Picture: Jan Sobieksi Music by composer Johann Jospeh Fux - Symphony in F Major, Partita in G Minor www.historyeurope.net www.patreon.com/historyeurope  See acast.com...Show More

27:11 | Dec 25th, 2020

The Habsburg Emperor Leopold I (1658-1705) faces the twin challenge of the France of Louis XIV in the west and the Ottoman Empire in the East Music: Christmas Concert by composer Arcangelo Corelli Pic...Show More

32:56 | Dec 4th, 2020

In the 1660's and 1670's the British (after the Restoration of the Monarchy led by King Charles II) and the Dutch fight a second and third naval war for control of the seas. It includes the audacious ...Show More

23:51 | Nov 27th, 2020

The death of Oliver Cromwell in September 1658 left the republican government in disarray. The mood of the country favoured the return of monarchy, and so King Charles II was invited to the restored E...Show More

35:24 | Nov 20th, 2020

The Anglo Dutch wars were not only important events in their own right, but also the earliest in a sequence of naval wars which continued into the nineteenth century. At first sight the British Common...Show More

25:47 | Nov 13th, 2020

After the execution of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and his Commonwealth government asserted their authority over Ireland and Scotland. They fought off an invasion from Charles's son, which was defeated...Show More