Napoleonic Peace

[Matteo]

France unilaterally annexed territory that the rest of Europe had fought to prevent her from taking for more than 200 years. Poland wasn't as big a deal and three major powers divided it amongst themselves.

Poland was an enormous deal. Its break-up in the years 1772-1795 completely upset the balance of powers on the european continent. If It had not been a big deal, It would not have been the casus belli for Russia post 1807.

There were different territories annexed by France. Only Britain and the United Provinces really opposed France annexing the spanish then austrian Netherlands.

Rhineland was an other matter and was a concern for the german States.

France shattered any balance of power in Europe and frankly British gains elsewhere threatened no one

You are mistaken. Russian was very concerned with Britain's worldwide colonial conquests and with its naval domination. So were the league of neutrals and the young US.

 

[Faeelin]

France unilaterally annexed territory that the rest of Europe had fought to prevent her from taking for more than 200 years. Poland wasn't as big a deal and three major powers divided it amongst themselves.

I'm not sure how you can say the destruction of a nation that existed for centuries was no big deal, but the annexation of Austrian Flanders is the worst thing to hit Europe for centuries.

And as Matteo noted, there was widespread fear about Britain's effort to seize colonies; this is why pretty much everyone in Europe went to war with England during the Revolution; fears of a universal monarchy based on economic and commercial power.

 

[Faeelin]

You are mistaken. Russian was very concerned with Britain's worldwide colonial conquests and with its naval domination. So were the league of neutrals and the young US.

I always think it's worth recalling that the British got Holland to go to war with them during the Revolution.

 

[TRH]

I always think it's worth recalling that the British got Holland to go to war with them during the Revolution.

And on top of that, not only did they get a bunch of countries to go to war against them, they couldn't even get those countries' neighbors to fight alongside them. They had no friends on the Continent besides Hesse and the like.