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?