One implication of retaining Serbia is that the second Serbian migration didn’t happen thereby
reducing the Serbian population in Vojvodina. Austria can hang on to Serbia if it extends privileges in return for serving as border guards. The church hierarchy in Serbia was an ally of Vienna...
How do we feel about a Virgin Queen? Her sister Margarita Teresa is born in 1651 so alive in 1656 she is still packed off to Austria to marry Leopold. Maria Teresa reigns well by herself with no French entanglements. Next Queen is Antonia in 1683. She’s 14. Who does she marry?
This war could have rather explosive ramifications! It is not the war Bismarck desired in Denmark but it may very well provide Germany with the results it got in 1864, 1866 and 1870 all in one war.
All three enemy combatants are beaten handily. Prussia can likely handle France and Denmark...
Weren’t they in an alliance...the Quadruple Alliance...for a while? France did some good by Austria. Having itback during the Second Morean War is an example.
But what if it continued? There could be some interesting horse trading. Lorraine for Tuscany as in OTL. Austrian Netherlands for...
I agree with the comment that the result of a victory would be a compromise peace and not much different than the OTL settlement. The Hungarian political elite was largely satisfied with the reigns of Charles and then Maria Theresa. Hungary needed this period of political stasis to repopulate...
No she can not be ruler of Prussia. I’m trying to make sense of the succession. Because of multiple predeseaces by 1888 I think the next in line is a certain Prince Albert born in 1837.
In the short term things are looking pretty good for Austria and MT. Among her adversaries, there is a loss of appetite for any war over the succession as FS is elected HRE and all territories are maintained with little fuss. Without Prussia, the alliance with London is likely sound. France...
Very much this. Quick peace to forestall outside intervention. Force Prussia back in to the Confederation. Schleswig-Holstein to Augustenburg. A favorable economic treaty. Implications are the failure of Prussia as the motor of German unification. Instead successive Prussian governments align...
I think it would require a war with Austria for full on annexation of both principalities and I don’t think that’s going to happen but here are two other cute options:
Option one: Dacia! In a more successful concerted 1790 ish effort, Russia gets its client state in the principalities and...
Franco-German cooperation would be quite a thing. France-NGC-Austria-Italy as a Quadruple Entente? A proto EU? Hard to imagine
Would depend a lot on France. What form of government does it have? How does it approach its new powerful neighbor? It’s likely hostile to it since it has eclipsed it...
Not much difference perhaps. NGC is on its own a powerful country that thwarts the ambitions of France. This is true even without the war and annexation of A-L. The Southern States are economic dependencies unable to align with Austria or France. They become bound by various agreements to the...
Yeah the funny thing here is that enhanced Bavaria and Saxony are immediately bad news for Prussia. Maybe the Queen of Hungary is an ally in the next war to reverse this a little bit.
Britain, Holland, Prussia, Hungary, Russia vs France, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony?
Always wonder whether a more flexible, creative Leopold II could have negotiated an orderly exile of the Royal family as part of a renewal of the 1756 alliance with France.
France takes the Austrian Netherlands. Austria takes Venetia and Dalmatia. Royal family in exile—I think they would have...
Didn’t he want to move to Trieste at one point and FJ said no? I don’t think it would be a boost to Austrian prestige, but rather a headache for both the state and church. There could be international innuendos about Austrian interference in church matters. On the flip side the Pope could be...