A Different Fate for the Princess of Orange

Faeelin

Banned
The year is 1787, dear readers. The Netherlands is torn between the
patriots, who want to end the Prince of Orange's hold on their country, and
the Orangists, who, as their name implies, support the House of Orange. The
great cities, amsterdam, utrecht, and the hague, are in the hands of the
patriots and the free corps.

This is not, however, France. The Dutch revolution is relatively bloodless.
There are no mass executions, no purges, and no centralized leadership.
Things are at an impasse, for no one is quite willing to go to war over
Holland.

Enter Wilhelmina, the Princess of Orange. Her husband refses to go and rally
the Orangist troops who were fighting near the Hague, and she was promptly
arrested by the Patriot Free Corps.

This, combined with French money and artillery for the patriots, leads to
the prussian invasion.

So, WI Wilhelmina does not travel to the Hague, or escapes? Does Prussia
still intervene? Or can Prussian intervention be aborted, or even held off
until 1789?
 
Prussian intervention

I think the detention of Wilhemina was simply a pretext. Prussian had Rhenish possessions and therefore a geopolitical interest in a friendly Dutch Republic. I think they would've found some pretext to intervene.
 

Faeelin

Banned
bill_bruno said:
I think the detention of Wilhemina was simply a pretext. Prussian had Rhenish possessions and therefore a geopolitical interest in a friendly Dutch Republic. I think they would've found some pretext to intervene.

Perhaps they would have, but the polish partitions are about to become a major issue. Would they focus on keeping a friendly power in the netherlands over the annexation of western poland?
 
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