Viennese Revolutionaries Link up with the Hungarians in the fall of 1848

October, 1848. It is only a few months from the springtime of pepoles, btut much has changed in the Habsburg capital. A mutiny by grenadiers no the 6 of October caused radicals to seize the city's armory and execute the conservative war minister by piercing his heart with a bayonet. In response, the Austrian government placed the capital under siege. But the Hungarian force s under Kossuth were advancing from the east, and by October 30th were a few tantalizing miles from the capital.

Where they were slaughtered, and forced to retreat. Vienna fell a day later to the Habsburg armies.

Suppose Kossuth had been more successful, however?
 
Would probably mean more Italian sucesses, and an all out civil war in Austria. Maybe Russia would be more hesitant to take on the revolutionaries if the hold Vienna contigously?
 
Yes, civil war in Austria, an independent Hungary and Bohemia, plus a collapse of Austrian control over the Italian peninsula and most likely the establishment of a unified German Empire.
 
What were the relations between the Hungarians and Vienese like anyway? IIRC the main reason Kossuth failed was because the Hungarians managed to piss off every other revolutionary and Nationalist group to the point where no-one cooperated with them (and to use Croatia as an example, worked with the Hapsburg's against them)
 
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