AH challenge: make Germany a republic by 1848.

PoD: Napoleon does not go to Egypt.

He heads to the Rhine, administered lately by the French-imposed "Cisrhenian Republic." He pushes eastward.

Still a soldier of the Republic in those days (c. 1800), he deposes princes and bishops every step of the way. The Republic of the Rhine, encompassing nearly all of non-Prussian, non-Austrian Germany, is declared in 1801.

PRIZE PLZ
 
Damn! Benkarnell beat me to it.

I was going to do a scenario where a republican Confederation of the Rhine is established during the Napoleonic Wars and by 1812 overtakes Prussia...
But the aforementioned scenario is too similar.
 
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