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I was looking over the Wikipedia articles on the Revolutions of 1848, and I thought of a TL idea, but it won't work if a certain point of information is incorrect.

Thus, I have a question (or two): In the 1848 Revolutions, would revolutionary groups attempt to join neighboring countries with the areas they controlled, if they knew that they would be suppressed and would lose in the old country?

Example: Schleswig, in OTL. They enjoyed their semi-autonomy from the Kingdom of Denmark, and sought to join with the German states, right? Would that happen with any other countries?

I'm planning (in my proposed TL) for revolutionaries from Austria, France, Italy, or Germany to ask to join Switzerland as part of a new canton, in return for respecting what the revolutionaries had fought to acquire.

I know that Switzerland had it's own problems close to this time (the Sonderbund), but it might be feasible for Switzerland to federally unite a bit faster, correct?
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