War

Today in the year 1621, one of the first decisions my prime minister made was to renew the war with the Dutch. My friend has already authorized our fleet to attack the Dutch fleet and have employed a few embargos on Dutch products. For the next few years my advisor and I decided to stick with a Netherlands first strategy. His plan was to go capture the Netherlands then after we had done that we would use that as a staging ground to face any other threat that we would have to face in Europe. For the first fifteen years of the war, I have been informed by my trusted advisor that the war was a great success. I was extremely pleased when I was informed that we had recaptured the key city of Breda. Throughout the war Olivares had been a key figure in the war, he was often the only cause of the creation of fresh troops and other matters in the war. However our success drew the French into the war and caused our Netherlands first strategy to fail. He convinced me that now with the French in our way, we must go all out. We assembled the invasion force and were within miles of Paris before we were repelled. We know had no more funds to spend on this war and Olivares are urging me now to seek peace with the French. At this point my court has lost their faith in Olivares and I had no other choice to dismiss him from his position. I am left with a bankrupt and exhausted state.  

                                               above is the picture of our vistory at breda