General European War 1847

Imagining a different Frederick William IV - or maybe a different Prussian Monarch - is there the possibility of the Schleswig Holstein crises of 1847 leading to war between Prussia and Russia.
France may well join Russia.
Austria fights with Prussia ? or with Russia ?.
Britain joins Prussia to keep a power balance ?.
 
It's difficult to imagine Prussia escalating things far enough to risk war with Russia. They'd back down if that became a possibility.
 
Doubtful honestly. The people of Schelswig Holstein were inspired by the revolutions that occurred in Paris in the start of 1848.
 

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Militarily, everyone's using percussion muskets, though the Prussians are spooling up Dreyse production. The Prussians of this period are not the Prussians of the 1860s, though, the reforms that made the Prussian Army that defeated Austria and France are a thing of the 1860s.
So.. basically Napoleonic.

Sea wise, the British are of course by far the most powerful nation - they have adequate steamships, and nobody has steam liners.
 
The timing is such that this could possibly be an extension of a different Crimean War or one that escalates. That might be the easiest scenario to actually trigger a war since direct conflict between them seems unlikely without something to push them.
 
The timing is such that this could possibly be an extension of a different Crimean War or one that escalates. That might be the easiest scenario to actually trigger a war since direct conflict between them seems unlikely without something to push them.

Austrian support for Russia? Britain escalates the war by attacking St. Petersburg?
 
Austrian support for Russia? Britain escalates the war by attacking St. Petersburg?

I know Russia helped out Austria against the Hungarians in '48 (although not very successfully), but didn't Austria deploy troops in '54 to Moldavia and Wallachia and help 'force' out Russian troops by threatening not to remain neutral?
I suppose with more polished diplomacy they might be able to get the Austrians onside reminding the Austrians that they 'owed' Russia.
A successful Anglo-French landing in the Baltic after a foolhardy Russian Baltic fleet decides to intervene gets itself sunk turning the Baltic sea into and Allied lake, this might be enough to pull the Prussians into the conflict instead of waiting for the battle of Tanneburg in 1914 to revenge Grunwald.

Just suggestions.....
 
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