An alternate Congress of Vienna

Trying to right the wrongs of the past and to prevent another occurrence in the future, the Congress of Vienna restored and simplified the map of Europe.

The Bourbon dynasties;
France as IOTL minus Corsica
Spain with the addition of Andorra and Portugal
the Two Sicilies

The barrier countries;
Sardinia with Corsica
Switzerland
the Netherlands

The Germanies
Austrian Empire with the Papal States, Tuscany, Modena, Parma, Bavaria, Wurttenberg, Baden and Cracow
Prussia with Saxony, the Saxon duchies, Mecklenburg, Lubeck, Hesse, Nassau and Franfurt
Hanover with Oldenburg, Brunswick and Hamburg

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Scandinavia; Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greenland
Russian Empire with Moldavia and Wallachia

In the New World the Latin Empire with the former King of Portugal as Emperor divided into 5 vice-royalties; Brazil, Rio de la Plata, Peru, New Granada and New Spain. Jamaica is included with New Spain and the other islands of the Greater Antilles, all islands of the Lesser Antilles goes to Great Britain. Florida offered to US in sail.

What do you wthink?
 
Trying to right the wrongs of the past and to prevent another occurrence in the future, the Congress of Vienna restored and simplified the map of Europe.

The Bourbon dynasties;
France as IOTL minus Corsica
Spain with the addition of Andorra and Portugal
the Two Sicilies

The barrier countries;
Sardinia with Corsica
Switzerland
the Netherlands

The Germanies
Austrian Empire with the Papal States, Tuscany, Modena, Parma, Bavaria, Wurttenberg, Baden and Cracow
Prussia with Saxony, the Saxon duchies, Mecklenburg, Lubeck, Hesse, Nassau and Franfurt
Hanover with Oldenburg, Brunswick and Hamburg

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Scandinavia; Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greenland
Russian Empire with Moldavia and Wallachia

In the New World the Latin Empire with the former King of Portugal as Emperor divided into 5 vice-royalties; Brazil, Rio de la Plata, Peru, New Granada and New Spain. Jamaica is included with New Spain and the other islands of the Greater Antilles, all islands of the Lesser Antilles goes to Great Britain. Florida offered to US in sail.

What do you wthink?

Let's start at the very beginning of this proposal:
The Bourbon Dynasties
1) France could lose Corsica, AFAIK it was debated at Vienna to either give to the Grand Duke of Tuscany or someone else (duke of Savoy? king of Naples?), but it wouldn't go over well.
2) Why is Spain getting bigger? Is it as compensation for what it lost in the New World? The Spain you are proposing sounds an awful lot like the Napoleonic Spain, and if Vienna wants to turn back the clock to 1789, Spain's losing territory big time.

The Barrier Countries
1) Sardinia and Corsica. Not clear if this is Sardinia detached from Savoy and Corsica detached from France united into one kingdom, or if it's merely Corsica united with Savoy-Sardinia. Either way, it's thin end of the wedge possible
2) Switzerland. Was a Republic. So unless someone's giving it a royal crown, and making it a much bigger deal than it was after OTL's Vienna, I can't see it happening. Added to that was the fact that Switzerland wasn't considered a barrier state (TMK).

The Germanies
Let's deal with this in further subsections:
1) Austria
1.1) Papal States: Nobody really wants them restored, but nobody could really figure out what to do with them OTL. The Marquis de Labrador (Spain's rep) was really the only one who spoke up for their restoration. In the end, IIRC, they were restored simply as a way of offsetting the Habsburg North with the Bourbon South
1.2) Italy (the Habsburgs or their cadets got this OTL, so I don't see a major change)
1.2.1) The remainders of Italy not covered: Milan/Lombardy, Venice? Who gets them? Who gets Dalmatia? No way is anyone going to sign off on Austria getting all of what they did here plus Lombardy-Venetia. It's gonna be an either-or scenario
1.3) Bavaria - the only thing that saved them OTL was the fact that they changed sides at the second-to-last minute (Saxony did it at the last minute and look what happened to them). Now, the Bavaria they're getting, is it 1789 Bavaria? Or Napoleonic Bavaria? And what happens to the Wittelsbachs? Do they get recompensated? Or do they just sulking in exile?
1.4. & 1.5.) Württemberg and Baden. No way on the side of blue hell is the Russian Emperor going to let the Austrian Emperor chase his relations (who do have relations to the French Emperor) out of their realms. Württemberg OTL played a double-game, he was father-in-law to Jerome Bonaparte, cousin to Alexander I and son-in-law to George III. He was pretty much safe whichever way the cat jumped. Baden is more of the same. Their grand duke was related to the Russian, Swedish, Hessian, Bavarian and Brunswicker royal families. Even if the only one of those that counts in this scenario is the Russian one (and that's just through his daughters). Through his mother he was connected to the Prussian, Saxon, Hessian (another branch), Bavarian and Mecklenburger royal families. In other words, deposing him is going to set nearly every German duke against Austria. Therefore, safer to leave him alone.
1.6) Cracow: Why?
2) Prussia
2.1.1) Saxony I get. What happens to the Wettins here?
2.1.2) The Saxon duchies? The duke of Weimar has the Russian Emperor as in-law. A good rule of thumb to have is simply to leave anyone married to a Russian grand duchess alone.
2.2) Mecklenburg. (Schwerin) Same as said in 2.1.2.; Plus he's (Strelitz) also related to the British king. Two of the strongest powers in Europe on his side make him a bad person to try and depose.
2.3) Lubeck: Not sure why not
2.4) Hesse. Again the problem comes in with relations. The Hessians are related to the Prussians, the British and the Russians (abortively). I'm not saying any of them would get involved on Hesse (or any of their other poor relations in Germany's behalf), but sometimes playing the bluff of saying 'don't mess with me, I've got a direct line to Berlin/London/St. Petersburg/wherever' can help. Besides, Darmstadt was historically pro-Austrian and Kassel was married to a Prussian princess.
2.5) What are the Netherlands getting in return for giving up their ancestral duchy?
3) Hannover
3.1) Oldenburg: King of Denmark's going to have something to say about this. So might the Russian emperor, the duke's brother is married to his favorite sister. Granted, the big four/five asked the king of Denmark to keep smiling when he gave away the Norwegian crown, so the stigma of a Napoleonic ally could cause them to do it.
3.2) Because of the duke's death at Quatre Bras, Hannover was already ruling Brunswick as regent for the duke's underage son.
3.3) Hamburg: Not sure why not
3.4) Hanover-British relations. The British didn't want more land on the continent. Parliament saw Hannover as a millstone around it's neck and a waste of money. However, George IV, as king/regent of Hannover could basically take the land and tell Parliament to shut-it, since their authority didn't extend beyond the Channel. The problem comes in with trying to defend said land when the next war rumbles along. AFAIK, there was an act of Parliament that specified that Britain wasn't responsible for Hannover's wars and vice versa. In other words, the minute Britain decides to go to war with the duke of pinchbeck, Hannover's suddenly a lot bigger than it was before, so in theory, harder (read more costly) to defend.

United Kingdom of Scandinavia; Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greenland
1) Why is there this blob? Did Sweden annex Denmark-Norway (by marrying Oscar I to Vilhelmina of Denmark, or by Gustaf Vasa being chosen as heir to Denmark?) And Iceland and Greenland were only granted crowns in the 20th century (my Scandinavian history is not so good, so I might be wrong) on equal footing with the home country.
2) What has happened to the dynasty that got replaced, be it Oldenburg, Holstein, or Bernadotte? And why does any one feel that a new Kalmar Union will be a good idea (I'm not talking about the third, fourth and fifth estates in Scandinavia, but the kings at Vienna)?

Russian Empire with Moldavia and Wallachia
1) Doesn't that mean that they've still got to reconquer this first. Balkan history is not my forte (much like Scandinavian) so I couldn't say. If they don't it seems pretty poor compensation in comparison with most of OTL's Prussia

In the New World the Latin Empire with the former King of Portugal as Emperor divided into 5 vice-royalties; Brazil, Rio de la Plata, Peru, New Granada and New Spain. Jamaica is included with New Spain and the other islands of the Greater Antilles, all islands of the Lesser Antilles goes to Great Britain. Florida offered to US in sail.

No. No. No.
Britain's not giving away Jamaica. It was the "capital" of their empire in that hemisphere. Florida they might consider selling to the US. Or the US might just demand it in reparations after the War of 1812.
Brazil is already on equal footing with Portugal as an independent crown. And while Carlota Joaquina might be eager to be queen of La Plata, enforcing rule over an entire continent (which is Spanish) is going to be a bit more difficult. Besides, Joao VI blocked Carlota's attempts to become queen of La Plata OTL, besides the loss of his homeland to the Spanish (again!), why's he agreeing to get the rest of the Spanish empire? Plus, there's the fact that the Spanish Empire as it stood, AFAIK, was in the throes of revolution following Vienna, and before that against the Madrid government of Joseph Bonaparte. Chances are good that they pull a similar stunt here against being ruled from Rio.
 
Simplifying the map is rather easier when including a map. As for Switzerland as a barrier country, I would say reword it as being neutralized as another treaty did for it. Just reinforcing that neighboring countries don't claim it and that the Swiss no longer can rent their men out as mercenaries. Which, unlike in Hesse, didn't involve the Duke to conscript men and force them to fight to the death while he pocketed their pay, but because Swiss men needed some way to make a living. Anyways, maybe add these grey Diamon areas to the cantons? Maybe just ten miles on the southern shore of Lake Geneva, the areas in the north around Schaffhausen, and a little more land around
Geneva from France. Doubtful the Swiss would really push for this, but the stuff from France might come around if Nappy tries rising up again, since the Dutch and Prussians also got a few other small snippets of land after the Hundred Days.

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If there are any changes in the south of Switzerland, besides Geneva and Valois officially joining Switzerland I mean, then it may need to be tied into the changes to northern Italy. Only San Marino is left in all of Italy as a republic unless someone tries to reestablish one. Which is somewhat doubtful. Certainly no chance of an Italian republic and the history of doges, magistrates, presidents-turned-king-emperors, and the like may keep people disenchanted for a while, though perhaps just for the same amount of time as IOTL. And, just to mention it, but I still am ammazed why a attempted assassination by Italians on Napoleon III got him or the French public to sympathize with them. Anyways. Northern Italy, lots of duchies that can be given to people for a lifetime. Plenty of wealthy lands for those deposed elsewhere. So if, say, the King of Saxony is send packing then he can get Tuscany or another place. Doubt they would send him off, though. Northern Italy also has plenty of overlapping Bourbon and Habsburg claims.

As for Spain getting Andorra and Portugal, that is not happening. People were fine with Andorra as it was, and the British are not going to abandon their oldest ally to put them under their combo-package historical enemies in the form of Bourbon run Spain. Even if the Royal family did somehow get all of South America.

As for Scandinavia, lots of fun there. Because the Norwegians didn't let Sweden annex them outright, the Danes didn't get some German land they were trading for it. Though it might have been one of those cases of the Danes and Swedes trading land around that they then had to sell to the Prussians.
 
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