AHC: Dutch get East Frisia

Well, I see a couple of possibilities.

1: Charles V conquers East-Frisia, just like he conquered Frisia, Gelre, etc.
2: The Dutch Republic (or maybe the house of Orange-Nassau or the province of Groningen or Friesland) annexes it after the death of the ruling line (like Prussia did). It has happened with a lordship like Vianen, it might have happened with East-Frisia
3: the Dutch republic simply conquers it somehow (unlikely though as the Dutch republic wasn't expansionist)
4: the kingdom of Holland survives somehow
5: The United Kingdom of the Netherlands gains East-Frisia after the Napoleonic Wars (maybe as compensation for the loss of Luxemburg?)
6: The Netherlands is occupied by Germany during WWI and gets East-Frisia as compensation (like the Belgians got Eupen-Malmedy)
7: After WWI the allies give Belgium Dutch Limburg and Zeelandic Flanders (as the Belgians demanded) and the Netherlands get compensated with East-Frisia
8: The Netherlands is occupied by Germany during WWII and get East-Frisia after the war as compensation (Bakker-Schut, but smaller)
 

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The Netherlands actually GOT East Friesia in 1807 for a time under Napoleon. Which is probably why the Dutch weren't permitted to keep it.
Option #2 probably makes the most sense. And I suspect that at the very least, the Dutch would build dikes between the East Friesian Islands and reclaim the land inside of them. West Friesia too. It woud be interesting to see, in the event that happened, if Denmark would catch on to reclaiming land from the Baltic and North Friesia the way the Dutch do East Friesia. There's a lot of very shallow water between the Danish islands that could be diked and reclaimed from the sea.
 
The Netherlands actually GOT East Friesia in 1807 for a time under Napoleon. Which is probably why the Dutch weren't permitted to keep it.

Exactly. that is what i meant with nr 4. If the kingdom of Holland, ruled by Napoleon's brother, somehow remains in existence (a Napoleonic victory before annexing the kingdom, for example), it will probably keep East-Frisia.

Personaly I consider nr 6 the most likely scenario or else nr 1.
 
What id Louis Bonaparte saw the writing on the wall and decided to join the Allies against his brother? Then something need be found to get the house of Orange merged into the the dutch branch of house Napoleon
 
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