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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Stylistic Conventions -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Why Fight? -- 1 Forced to Fight: Coercion during the Thirty Years' War -- 2 International Protestantism and Fear of Spain -- 3 Elizabeth of Bohemia -- 4 Pamphlets and Sermons during the Thirty Years' War -- 5 Conclusion -- 2 The Standing Army of England: The Anglo-Dutch Brigades -- 1 Diplomacy -- 2 The 1624 Levy -- 3 The Mansfeld Levy (1625) -- 4 The Impact of Cadiz, Kejserkrig and La Rochelle (1625-1629) -- 5 The Siege of s'Hertogenbosch (1629) -- 6 The Siege of Maastricht (1632) -- 7 The Siege of Breda (1637) -- 8 Conclusion -- 3 The Palatinate: War to Defend Religion and Family -- 1 The Andrew Gray Levy of 'True Borne Britaines' -- 2 Earls of Essex, Oxford, Southampton and Sir Horace Vere (1620-1624) -- 3 The 1621 Parliament -- 4 The Siege of Frankenthal (1621-1623) -- 5 The Impact and Legacy of Frankenthal -- 6 Conclusion -- 4 Kejserkrig: The Northern Family Enters the Fray (1625-1629) -- 1 Competition with Kejserkrig: The Scale of Stuart Commitments to Cadiz and La Rochelle (1625-1629) -- 2 The Levy of Charles Morgan (1625) -- 3 The Siege of Stade and the End of Kejserkrig -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 The Crucible of War: Sweden in the 1630s -- 1 The Origins of the English Military Diaspora in Sweden: 1618-1629 -- 2 Englishmen at the Heart of the Thirty Years' War: Swedish Military Service during the 1630s -- 3 Hamilton's Army and English Levies for Sweden (1629-1632) -- 4 Fleetwood's Regiment, Origins and Composition -- 5 Fleetwood's Regiment, Internal Politics and War -- 6 The Levy of William, Lord Craven (1638) -- 7 Conclusion -- Legacy -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Denmark -- Statens Arkiver Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen -- England -- British Library, London -- Canterbury Cathedral Archives.