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Given that I'm new, feel free to tell me if I'm doing something wrong.
Anyway, here's my point of divergence : in OTL when Prussia and Italy attacked Austria in 1866, the Prussians dealt them a severe defeat at Sadowa/Koeniggratz, while the Italian Army lost the battle of Custoza because of bad chemistry between the Italian commanders and their own inability to successfully lead their troops (basically, they were supposed to execute a two-pronged attack, General La Marmora from the Mincio River and General Cialdini from the Po River, but Cialdini didn't move and the Archduke Albert was able to concentrate all of his troops against La Marmora, and the latter lost control of his troops and ordered a retreat); to do something and avoid embarassing questions about the defeat, the Italian government forced Admiral Persano's fleet (in bad shape and not at the level of the seasoned Austrian Navy) to go out at sea and get soundly beaten at Lissa (two ironclad frigates sunk, although the Austrians actually got some damage). The only one to do something decent was Garibaldi who overwhelmed some border defence troops at Bezzecca, but was forced to withdraw because of the armistice.
Now, what if, by some cause (maybe the King's intervention, a kind exhortation to move out), Cialdini actually made his move immediately and the Archduke Albert, fearing to be caught between the two masses, ordered to withdraw; but the retreating Austrians got intercepted by the Italian divisions at the extreme Italian right (under the Crown Prince Umberto and the former second-in-command of Garibaldi, General Bixio) and, under their assaults, some of their corps lost cohesion and routed.
Thus, the Battle of Custoza would be an Italian victory, and there would have been no need to send the fleet out against the superior enemy. The Italians would have advanced and occupied all the territory they wanted, and at the peace conference they would ask, and get, their pound of flesh (that the Austrians, defeated and with a ruined economy, had no other option but to give up) : apart from Venetia, Trento and Trieste, they would get all South Tyrol to the Brenner Pass (for "strategic reasons", as the generals would say, to negate Austria a foothold in the southern part of the Alps), all of Istria (basically to the OTL borders after WWI, including Fiume) and the historical region of Dalmatia (as ruled by Venice until 1797) with most of the Adriatic Islands. All of this for a meager sum of 15 millions gulden.
This is the concept : how does it look to you?
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