No miracle of the house of Brandenburg impact on europe

empress Elizabeth alive until the end of the 7 years war. How would Europe turn out with a Prussian loss. Would France annex the Austrian Netherlands or would it be a client state ,would Russia and Austria drive the ottomans out of Europe
 
- Southern Netherlands remains Habsburg according to the Third Treaty of Versailles, for her contribution France may receive some territory around Hainaut and Ypres, but it would make too much sense for Louis XV so it's not a given.
- Prussia is absolutely destroyed, Frederick II probably commits suicide as Berlin is taken. Austria gains Silesia and Prussian Guelders, Saxony gains Magdeburg, Cottbus and maybe some slice of Silesia (to border Poland), Russia gives Prussia proper to Poland to annex Courland and Sweden annex most, if not all, of Pomerania. No idea about the Rhenish territories. At worst Brandenburg also losts the electorate.
- Elizabeth dies in the earlier 1760s anyways (she was very sick the entire war), Peter III may have a firmer reign this time, if his OTL policies remains he would flip to Britain's camp. This ensures the Austro-French alliance, albeit barely.
- France occupies Hanover and tries to use it as a bargain piece against Britain, however George III is the king and he care little to nothing about his German holding, so any success is this endeavor is uncertain. France probably lost Louisiana to Spain regardless of outcome.
- Poland survives... unless Russia decides to dinner some bigos.
EDIT: - If George decides that Hanover is more important than supremacy in North America the ARW is butterflied away.
 
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Hannover was considered very important to the Brits as it protects the flank of Holland/Flanders and thus the landing ground for an invasion of Britain.
 
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- France occupies Hanover and tries to use it as a bargain piece against Britain, however George III is the king and he care little to nothing about his German holding, so any success is this endeavor is uncertain. France probably lost Louisiana to Spain regardless of outcome.

George III will definitely care about Hanover - he's an absolute monarch there. Also, France and Spain were on the same side; France ceded Louisiana to Spain as compensation for Spain's loss of Florida. ITTL that may not happen as Britain may renounce a lot of its North American conquests.
 
Hannover was considered very important to the Brits as it protects the flank of Holland/Flanders and thus the landing ground for an invasion of Britain.

Elaborate, to my knowledge Hanover was always a burden.

George III will definitely care about Hanover - he's an absolute monarch there. Also, France and Spain were on the same side; France ceded Louisiana to Spain as compensation for Spain's loss of Florida. ITTL that may not happen as Britain may renounce a lot of its North American conquests.

Cares so much he never set a foot there. He has kickstart his reign (remember, he has less than 2 years on the throne) by give up the British conquests and the long desired supremacy in India and North America, with a guaranteed parliamentary backlash, for a German holding. Remember that
Hanover may be an absolute monarchy, but Britain isn't, by doing so he pretty much violated his oath to the parliament.

Pardon my ignorance about Louisiana.
 
Elaborate, to my knowledge Hanover was always a burden.

British policy in Europe was always to keep Flanders and Holland out of French hands. That meant maintaining the "Barrier" in Flanders on the French border and also stopping any German power invading Holland from the East, which meant a bulwark state there. British success in the Seven Years War was mainly from bogging down the French in Germany so they could not spend resources on the naval and colonial war. When George III argued for breaking the personal union, his British ministers argued him out of it.
 
British policy in Europe was always to keep Flanders and Holland out of French hands. That meant maintaining the "Barrier" in Flanders on the French border and also stopping any German power invading Holland from the East, which meant a bulwark state there. British success in the Seven Years War was mainly from bogging down the French in Germany so they could not spend resources on the naval and colonial war. When George III argued for breaking the personal union, his British ministers argued him out of it.

Source on that?

Also, Hanover don't border the United Provinces (Munster does, as showed in the Franco-Dutch war), France already committed to a naval and colonial war (and failed) and France already has the Southern Netherlands indirectly.
 
- Poland survives... unless Russia decides to dinner some bigos.
EDIT: - If George decides that Hanover is more important than supremacy in North America the ARW is butterflied away.

Poland survives until she begans making noises about reforms and such... and even then without Prussia it might be limited to tightening the leash, exiling the wannabe reformers, and stationing more russian soldiers there.
 
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