AHC: Swiss Burgundy

Your challenge, is to create a scenario, in which the country/nation of Switzerland has control of either parts or all of historical Burgundy, with a POD before 1900.

As usual, the country in question can either be independent, or a vassal.

And I totally don't own and play 5 hours of EU4 every day. ;):rolleyes::D
 
Almost impossible with Switzerland remaining a Confederacy.

Your PoD would have to be someone forcibly unifying Switzerland prior to the Burgundian wars (good luck finding that!)
 

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Your challenge, is to create a scenario, in which the country/nation of Switzerland has control of either parts or all of historical Burgundy, with a POD before 1900.

As usual, the country in question can either be independent, or a vassal.

And I totally don't own and play 5 hours of EU4 every day. ;):rolleyes::D

Which Burgundy? The duchy (just the traditional duchy, or including later additions such as Picardie and the Lowlands?)? The free county? The kingdom? Cisjuranian or Transjuranian Burgundy? Please specify.

Hint: OTL actually fulfils your requirement. Switzerland does indeed contain areas that once were called Burgundy.
 
Passport to Pratteln

When digging foundations for a new Ikea store in Pratteln (just outside Basel), builders discover a buried cellar containing artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancient parchment document. The document was authenticated as a charter of the Prince-Bishop of Basel that ceded the house and its estates to Charles VII ("the Rash"), the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at the Battle of Nancy. As the charter had never been revoked, Pratteln is legally part of Burgundy.


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Nigel.
 
I would say that a harsher peace after the French Revolutionary wars would be the only way. Maybe somehow kill all the reasonable heirs to the French throne. Let the wars take longer and be harsher and somehow have Switserland at the side of the victors. They victors would want to punish somehow, instead of just returning France to its pre revolutionairy borders. And even in that case I think a Swiss Burgundy is quite unlikely.
 
Swiss Franch-Comté is possible (taken by the Confederacy during the Burgundian wars for example) and Franche-Comté was the Free-County of Burgundy.
That's one way to have a Swiss Burgundy (alonside a probably French Burgundy e.g. the Duchy of Burgundy).

From then, If the Confederacy conquers Savoy which they temprorarily did in the XVIth century for the Northern part (Chablais), and incorporates its associates Geneva and Valais, then the Confederacy controls most of the territory of the Kingdom of upper Burgundy (less Aosta, which is not far away to conquer as well, something aking to Ticino).

At this point, the Swiss Confederacy can call itself the Republic of Upper Burgundy and it would be pretty accurate. :)

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Tribal Burgundians migrate into Roman Switzerland (I forget the name but it's 1:24 AM and I can barely feel my fingers typing this so cut me some slack)


Therefore Switzerland now controls every single Burgundian.
 
Btw, is there a good timeline with a Switzerlandwank? I'd love to read one...

OTL history is a good Swisswank, they were extremely lucky in their wars and, if you're talking about never being conquered, are the most successful nation in history.
 
OTL history is a good Swisswank, they were extremely lucky in their wars and, if you're talking about never being conquered, are the most successful nation in history.

If the Swiss got far out of their mountains (which were REALLY defensible), they'd probably be over run by the other great powers of the day.

Could Switzerland get a bit bigger? yes. Could it get a whole lot bigger? Probably not.

I'm not saying they couldn't try to expand, or even briefly succeed, but it wouldn't last and the power that retook the overstretch might not stop at the prewar border.
 
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