Vet Reacts! *Poland Comes Back With Style* History of Poland: The Deluge II 1655-1660 By Eastory 

8:20 Even tho Poland survived this war the amount of damage the commonwealth took economically, militarily and politically is a contributing factor to why it was eventually partitioned later on because it had become to weak to defend itself.

During this time Sweden had the best army in the world. But Poland had winged hussars. Even Swedish army would not survive direct charge from hussars, so they almost never allow them to do that. Whenever they would meet hussars, they would fortify, and wait. The recorded exchanges of insults between Polish and Swedish soldiers are hilarious

5:48 As I said in a comment on part 1 the Swedish army was one of if not the best in Europe by this time so they had grown used to defeating much larger but inferior armies. Also we had good generals as well and very good artillery use.

"I am a Pole" the legend of Piorun by LazerPig ;) you wont regret it, sir ;)

8:34 This is why Sweden sorta loses the war with Poland in the sense that Poland gets rescued by the other great powers. We (Sweden) still end in a W tho when we did a Hail Mary and marched across the frozen ice over the belt to Copenhagen and got a very profitable peace deal from Denmark as a result we still own Scania to this day (southern Sweden very rich land) and Bohuslän.

9:48 March across the belt time one of the most based events in all of Swedish history Lmao. It’s hard to properly explain via text just how important and unique the march across the belt was which was very risky walking on pure ice with an entire army + artillery etc. if it broke everything would have gone to hell for Sweden in the war but instead Sweden got one of the most important peace treaties in our history thanks to Denmark realizing their capital was about to fall if they didn’t surrender.

12:20 The one dumb thing we did was attack them immediately after we just had won a war with them. This resulted in us having to give back a few (not all) of the land we had taken from them in the previous war such as the island of Bornholm and central Norway. Sweden actually had real plans to annex ALL of Denmark in this second war with them if we had won. But sadly the Danes got outside help. (Just messing with you Danes your alright)

Long have we waited for this moment. :)

8:54 Ironically this is the same strategical necessity that will bite Sweden in the arse 50 years later during the Great Northern War. Being stuck in the multiple-front war they have to beat one enemy at a time and had to choose whom to beat. So Charles XII, already crushed the Russian army at Narva, had chosen to switch to "pacify" Poland giving Peter the Great time to recuperate and consolidate which finally would bring the undoing of the Swedish Empire.

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11:08 Basically the start of Prussia ruling itself which would lead to German reunification in the 19 century.

Where there is imperialism, there is also the Protestant or Orthodox Church...