How could the Confederation of the Rhine and Kingdom of Naples break free from France and complete German (no Austria) and Italian Unification Without being crushed by the great powers
Could the Confederation survive with Prussia taking over France's old position (at least at first) if Austria was in a bad position to make demands at the end of the war?
Link please?Never regret a moment where I get to mention A Dead Skunk TL.
A personal favorite of mine and has the Kingdom of Italy/Naples surviving as a post-Napoleonic state along with a non-Bourbon France. The POD is a very different Battle of New Orleans that eventually gets Wellington to the USA so yeah it's a very high butterfly scenario but worth the read.
Link please?
Also, given that I was recently told about Napoleon's puppet-king in the Netherlands who struggled with trying to rule independently from Napoleon, it'd be interesting to see if there could be a plausible timeline for Louis to stay as King of Holland.
Naples as Independent kingdom under Murat's dynasty could be interesting in the leading up 19th Century. Who knows what a player it becomes if there are still unitication tendencies leading up to an unified Italy.Naples surviving under Murat is viable... as it was a functional nation in its own right. But the CotR was exactly that; a Confederation that co-ordinated for military purposes as essentially a series of independently-functioning clients to France. Without the glue that was Nappy's unified military alliance holding them together the Confederation was no more a country than the Holy Roman Empire before it and the German Confederation after.
The Allies were willing to let Ney keep on in Etruria
Link please?
Also, given that I was recently told about Napoleon's puppet-king in the Netherlands who struggled with trying to rule independently from Napoleon, it'd be interesting to see if there could be a plausible timeline for Louis to stay as King of Holland.
I don't disagree, but he did not have a serious backer among the powers nor the advantage of ruling a peripheral area. Additionally - as in the case of Murat - there was the difficulty of convincing him to betray Napoleon early enough to do him any good.I'd like to see Eugene de Beauharnais get a state to rule. He was one of the more competent of Nap's relatives
I don't disagree, but he did not have a serious backer among the powers nor the advantage of ruling a peripheral area. Additionally - as in the case of Murat - there was the difficulty of convincing him to betray Napoleon early enough to do him any good.
Instead of the Confederation of the Rhine, we should be looking to have the Kingdom of Westphalia survive.