AHC: Danish Congo?

In his old days, King Leopold falls in love with a pretty Danish woman, so in his will he leaves the Congo Free State to her. She does not know what to do with it and gives as a present to her home nation.
 
going a bit off the obvious PoDs ... Napoleon dies (or is crippled) in the failed french assault in La Maddalena on Sardinia in 1793 (his first battle experience, states Wikipedia)...

Butterflies the Napoleonic wars, which butterflies parts if not all of Congress of Vienna, in which Denmark was argubly the harshest hit country on the losing side, losing the navy (which was a major part of the Danish military), and Norway ... This would mean that Denmark would have much more access to military and money both in the Scheswig wars and in the colonization race, where Denmark would probably be number 6 in protential strength (after, in no specific order, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Netherlands) ... certainly able to grab some prime estate a couple of places ... then its just a question of 'striking gold' so to speak, grabbing the right bits out of the sack
 
going a bit off the obvious PoDs ... Napoleon dies (or is crippled) in the failed french assault in La Maddalena on Sardinia in 1793 (his first battle experience, states Wikipedia)...

Butterflies the Napoleonic wars, which butterflies parts if not all of Congress of Vienna, in which Denmark was argubly the harshest hit country on the losing side, losing the navy (which was a major part of the Danish military), and Norway ... This would mean that Denmark would have much more access to military and money both in the Scheswig wars and in the colonization race, where Denmark would probably be number 6 in protential strength (after, in no specific order, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Netherlands) ... certainly able to grab some prime estate a couple of places ... then its just a question of 'striking gold' so to speak, grabbing the right bits out of the sack
What about Sweden? Would Sweden pose much danger to TTL denmark?
 
Depends on how butterfly nets are set up. If we end up with Russia making a landgrab on Finland, Denmark/Norway would probably come out on top in terms of who's the leading scandinavian nation ... but really, I have absulutely no idea how europe would run without Napoleon
 
Depends on how butterfly nets are set up. If we end up with Russia making a landgrab on Finland, Denmark/Norway would probably come out on top in terms of who's the leading scandinavian nation ... but really, I have absulutely no idea how europe would run without Napoleon
I suppose it would be same without Napoleon, except slowed revolution process.
 
given that there were a number of disargeements and landgrabs handled doing or after Napoleon that didn't have anything directly to do with Nappy, but used it to justify or hiding under the radar, its hard to say ...
 
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