The Drunken Scholar

By: Devan Claeys
  • Summary

  • Just a novice historian having some drinks and talking about history. Currently doing the "Wars in the North" series covering a series of conflicts and rivalries in the early modern period between Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that will last for centuries.
    Devan Claeys
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Episodes
  • (WitN part 26) The War Shifts East
    Nov 5 2023

    After the disaster of the grodno campaign, revolts and dissent brewing back, and Augustus offically out of the war, Peter decides to pull back the majority of the Russian troops out of the Commonwealth to prepare for the Swedish invasion. Meanwhile Wladyslaw Leszczynski starts to lose lose his grip on the Commonwealth as an emboldened Charles makes the fateful decision to march East towards Ukraine.

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    34 mins
  • (WitN Part 25) The Grodno Campaign
    Oct 12 2023

    It is now 1704, The Great Northern War has been raging for 4 years now and Charles XII of Sweden has successfully knocked out Denmark from the war and won stunning victories against the coalition forces. Now, Charles will install his own choice candidate for the Commonwealth throne as the Commonwealth fall into a violent civil war. Meanwhile, over the next two years Sweden will achieve even more decisive victories in what will be known as the Grodno Campaign. By 1708 Charles will have successfully dethroned Augustus from the Commonwealth throne and knock out Saxony from the war. Sweden now stands from a strong position as Charles is finally able to plan out an offensive into Russia and hopefully end the war.

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    18 mins
  • (WitN Part 24) Division in the Commonwealth
    Sep 25 2023

    Following Charles XII's invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the political tensions that have been building up over the last couple decades finally reaches a boiling point as the country descends into civil war that will decide the Commonwealth's future for the next 200 years. Meanwhile both Sweden and Russia will try to exploit the situation to their own advantage as the conflict intensifies.

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    20 mins

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