Hrm. Venice and Milan? There were plans to conquer the former in OTL...
Combined with Italian Tyrol that could certainly work. But when would they have chance to conquer Venice between the 1760s and the late 1770s?
I was wondering about Dalmatia.
Hrm. Venice and Milan? There were plans to conquer the former in OTL...
Milan and Parma might work, but that would probably hurt the own Habsburg-Lorraine position in Italy too much.
And the kingdom of Naples was already lost before the POD in the war of the Polish Succession.
Though Parma was relatively minor, Milan wasn't, though still not as important as Bavaria.
Anyway a Bourbon Southern Netherlands will make any future trade for Bavaria by Austria unlikely, unless Austria makes some major territorial gains, which doesn't seem likely either.
has anyone ever heard the term, America was won in Germany?
With a Prussian loss, and too many enemies on the continent for the Brits to fight alone, I doubt they get all that territory that they did OTL;
has anyone ever heard the term, America was won in Germany?
With a Prussian loss, and too many enemies on the continent for the Brits to fight alone, I doubt they get all that territory that they did OTL;
Although this probably either just drags out the war, or leads to another soon afterwords.
I think the Brits would have to gain some territory, but I agree all of Quebec may be unlikely. The question is, what do the French give up to get Quebec back?
Peter III will save Prussia from any serious, long-lasting effects in terms of actual damage. Never underestimate the degree to which that kind of Tsar would be willfully stupid. Not sure how Catherine the Great will handle this kind of thing, though I'd imagine she might have greater difficulty with any policies too favorable to Germans.
The POD is that it happens before Peter III comes to the throne. He can't do much about it if Prussia has already been dismantled.
That's the thing IMHO Prussia-Brandenburg will suffer territorial losses, most importantly Silesia and some other small territorial losses (another option could be the Lusatian possessions of Prussia-Brandenburg to Saxony).
So Prussia-Brandenburg will basically only be slightly smaller than when Frederick was crowned.