With Buckingham protected from impeachment, but at the cost of taxation, Charles finds another way to raise the money needed to prosecute a war. Buckingham, eager to prove himself, leads a new expedition in person; to try and save the Huguenots that his ships had attacked. The Siege of Saint-Martin was the lynchpin, not only of Buckingham's recovered reputation, but of Charles' money troubles, Stuart foreign policy, and the course of the Thirty Years War.

No prizes for guessing how it will go.

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In this episode I made particular use of the following publications:

• The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire.
• David Smith, The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689
• Kishlasnky, M, A Monarchy Transformed: 1603-1714
• The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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