Challenge: Freedom, but not unity

Everything goes absolutely pear-shaped in the Crimean War? :eek:

Seriously though I'd like to see someone do this challenge. Anyone that realistically gets a fragmented Germany and Italy while Poland and Hungary break away past the 1848 period deserves a bloody medal.
 
well, i don't know specifics of this timeperiod, but if the hungarians defeat the hapsburgs and break away, this weakens austria in the balkans, they might focus more in germany and end up screwing up prussia.

i guess perhaps with a weakened prussia, poland would be able to hold its ground better against them as well as russia maybe...
 
Ok here goes:

Independent Poland:
The January Uprising in 1863 is a sucess, the Poles were able to defeat the Russian army. This would need the support of one of the major powers, I would suggest France as it will really annoy the Prussians and that was a major goal of Mapoleon III.

Independent Hungary:
Under the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 Hungary WAS a seperate Kingdom, just that it's king was also the King of Austria. Prehapse a small re-write of the Comprosmise could have a younger son take the throne of Hungary and sever the personal union of the two countries.

Disunited Germany:
A loss to France or to Austria in the wars leading up to German Unification in 1871 would see Bismarck loose his office as Chancellor. This could mean that Prussia remains in the Northern Germanic League, but doesn't unify into the German Empire in 1871.

Disunited Italy:
This is the easiest!
Either Garibaldi is killed uniting the south of Italy, or the Pope refuses to reduce the Papal States to just the Vatican State and so Italy is a country divided by the Papal States, and Rome can't be it's capital.

Since Napoleon III was backing the Pope against the unification of Italy, it could be that he also interfered with Poland and won the Franco-Prussian war. Not sure how he could have interferred with the A-H Comprimise however.

Hope this helps
 
1848 goes differently. Republicans succeed in Hungary, Russia doesn't put down the Polish rebels, and though popular unification movements abound in Germany and Italy, none of the powers are willing to do so. Austria remains strong enough that it and Prussia are deadlocked for German hegemony, and Piedmont doesn't manage to notify France or whatever. For that matter, have the 1848 French revolution go differently that even if Nappy III ends up as Emperor, France doesn't interfere in Italian politics.
 
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