Britain declares war on Russia 1863

Had Britain declared war in support of polish rebels in 1863.how would it go ,would France join. Who would win.
 

TFSmith121

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How is this in Britain's strategic interests?

Had Britain declared war in support of polish rebels in 1863.how would it go ,would France join. Who would win.

How is this in Britain's strategic interest?

Given the British shied away from intervention in the Danish war a couple of years later, for obvious reasons and despite the potential threat to the Baltic exits, why would Britain intervene over anything in Poland - especially given the potential for a Russo-Prussian alliance?

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Anaxagoras

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Britain would declare war or threaten war if Russia threatened Britain's strategic interests, as it did whenever Russia tried to poke around the Dardanelles. Frankly, though, Britain couldn't have cared less about Poland in 1863.
 
For all the noise Britain might have made regarding her moral interest in the brutality the Russians showed towards the Poles, they were not interested in doing anything more than potentially putting economic pressure on Russia. There was no reason to declare war and no coalition of willing allies to push the issue.

While the Shweig-Holstein crisis might have sparked a war if Prussia had been overtly belligerent (doubtful with a shrewd operator like Bismarck at the helm) you would have needed France (and most likely Sweden as well) to be willing to intervene, Britain would not go it alone, and considering Denmark was in the moral wrong in the eyes of many, it would have been unpopular. Which is probably worse from the eyes of Whitehall.
 
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