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    Colonial pursuits of a United Netherlands

    Do you have some ideas about possible colonial projects of a United Kingdom of the Netherlands surviving in 1830? Will this stronger union of the low countries be able to expand its colonial empire more than Belgium and Netherlands did OTL?
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    Succesfull Ten Days Campaign in Belgium

    What if the Netherlands got foreign support from Prussia, Austria and Russia in 1831 and they crushed the Belgian Revolution, what would have happened? (The POD will be in 1831). Would there be a second revolution in 1848 and how would it effect things like German Unification, Franco-German War...
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    Oranje Boven: A Dutch timeline
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    Oranje Boven A Dutch timeline I have been interested in Dutch history for a long time, and how it could have turned out differently. After wandering around this forum for a while and considering different POD possibilities, I...
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    Could the Netherlands get German territories in 1815?

    Was it possible for the Netherlands to get German territories in 1815 during the Congress of Vienna? Originally, the Dutch king William I called for the addition of the Rhineland to his kingdom too, but I also remember a version in which the Netherlands gets East Frisia and Cleves and has to...
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    Alternate Belgium

    IOTL, in 1830, the Belgian Revolution was beginning. Eventually Belgium broke free, supported by France. But after the (failed) Dutch Ten Days Campaign, the Dutch army kept the 3 cities of Antwerp, Maastricht and Luxembourg. IOTL, after the Siege of Antwerp between the French army and the...
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    No Belgium

    After the defeat of Napoleon in 1814/1815, the Great Powers of Europe decided that the Netherlands, Belgium ánd Luxemburg would become 1 country, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1830, the Belgians started an uprising, and they got independence. POD But what I want to have, is a...
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    Stadhouder Willem VI

    In 1799, there was the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. The British and Russians wanted to free the Netherlands of the French during the Second Coalition War, and restore the stadholder. But they failed. What if… But what if in an alternate timeline, the Anglo-Russian invasion was succesfull...
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    What if Prince Frederick of the Netherlands succeeded his father William I as King of the Netherlands?

    What if prince Frederick of the Netherlands succeeded his father William I as king of the Netherlands in 1840, and not William II? Which would be the effects on things like the Dutch constitution of 1848, the Luxembourg crisis, maybe Belgium?, and what would be his line of succession? If you...
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    What if the Dutch Empire stays intact after Napoleon?

    During and after the Napoleonic Wars, the Dutch gave Ceylon, Cape Colony, Guiana and some cities in India to the British. But what if they got all these colony’s back. As a result, the Netherlands remains a (middle)great power, which I want to have. So, I thought that the best POD is that...
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