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When looking at wikipedia I found this article about the Rhine crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine_crisis
I have never heard about it before, but maybe people here have heard about it.
Apparently the French government in 1840 it realy wanted the Rhineborder again. This lead to tentions between the German confederation and France and could actualy have turned into a war, but war was avoided when the French government was replaced with a new government, who did not care about it.
Since I know next to nothing about this incident, I was wondering if war could have actualy happened, if history had played out differently and what would have happened if war actualy broke out. Could France have won and created a Rhine border? What would the concequences be for German unification if that happened? What would happen to the French diplomatic status (I can't see the UK, or Belgium and the Netherlands being particularly happy about it)?