What if France joined the UK after the Napoleonic wars? I think that French people would be encouraged to speak English and in this timeline their empires combine.
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Could you please elaborate on the circumstances that you think cause this to happen.
Assuming for a moment that the UK does decide that they want to take all France. The day they do that all of their former allies go "what the hell?" and pile on to push the UK out of the continent.
That will end up with the rest of the Coalition to go "lol nope".
Personally for me it would really unlikely
I don't see the other powers accepting that France joined the UK after the Napoleonic wars it would break the equilibrium of the power
If France joined the UK, french people would surely rebel at the slightest opportunity
if France stay under the control of the UK, french will stay the first langage of France because all the elite already speak french and it's still the official language of the country.
I don't see the other powers accepting that France joined the UK after the Napoleonic wars it would break the equilibrium of the power
If France joined the UK, french people would surely rebel at the slightest opportunity
if France stay under the control of the UK, french will stay the first langage of France because all the elite already speak french and it's still the official language of the country.
Well first of all Karolus Rex, can you explain what "the Coalition" is? I've studied this period of history and never heard of it and I adressed both of you two's points in a response to Escape Zepplin. But to summarize, French punishment, lots of money, small slices to other european countries. Also French would be the main language but its just that English is a second language like Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
The Coalition is the 7th Coalition, that was formed in 1815 for the 100 Days. Now I would love to know how would GB justify to it's allies, who almost ended up in a war because Prussia wanted to annex Saxony, their annexation of France.
GB during this period was disliked by most of the continental powers, if they even presented such a proposal the members they would have no support from any continental power and would be probably kicked out of the negotiations in Vienna.
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There is the wiki page for the First Coalition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition You can follow the links in it for the Second Coalition, Third,...
Some of us are just more keen about our ultimate destiny to rule Gaul.
Now if we were to go back to the 1400s and have Henry V live longer then we could manage this.
Well there's always a small Armonican village that manages to survive such a conquest.
Well Britain actually probbably gave the Europeans boatloads of money aswell as some french land.
So? That's still not a reason to justify such a annexation. If they try to push for this it would end up with a new Coalition but against the Brits, and the French be part of the Coalition.
the other power were affraid of France that was a Juggernaut for them (see the The Holy Alliance), now how the others power would react when they will see the two most powerful power in this period merge together, They will shit in their pants, with their combined resources(UK+ France) if the UK became crazy it would be a bloody nightmare. They could not let this happen.
UK was in war against the french during centuies, put all his ressource against them during the coalitions war, now occupate their countries, put an end to their freedom and encourage english language, in your scenario the UK will be hated, they will need to put a lot of ressource to kept these territories (and if by miracle they could) IMO french culture will became anti-english, speak English will be seen as a sign of treachery.
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Even then, the war was not about making France part of England. They were going to be separate kingdoms in personal union if the Plantagenets won.