Thirty Years' War and Richelieu's use of German disunity

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• Tragedy and Hope pp. 348-350 · open book

  Richelieu, on behalf of France, used the internal problems of Germany in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) to play off one group against another, ensuring that the Habsburgs would never unify Germany, and dooming the Germanies to another two hundred years of disunity.

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