What if Napoleon finishes off Prussia and/or Austria while he can

You mean the Sedish, not the Spanish? Spain was certainly a involved in the coaltin against Napolen but was never nvolved in the fighting in Germany. The Swedes were even if they tended to hang back.

You are however right in emphasising the importance of Austria's role in the autumn 1813 campaign.

West Point doesn't agree with your statement

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Austria contributed in 1813 with 400.000 troops and before her intervention Russia and Prussia did lose the battle of Lutzen and Bautzen against Napoleon. It's only after the entry of Austria that the war becomes really hopeless for Napoleon.

It seems that the Austrian empire was an enemy more dangerous and at the same time by being multinational more fragile than Spain.
 
I agree with you regarding Britain's modus operandi. It remains, though, that outside of the Walcheren expedition (ended in abject failure), the Iberian Penninsula was the center of British land force campaign. remove that and there is no where for Britain to truly make an impact militarily. They funded a lot of campaigns, but didn't really do anything aside from Trafalgar (another Nap blunder) and Iberia (which includes triumph there, then using Iberian/British Forces to pursue Nap) militarily to bring Nap to his knees. So if you limit Britain in Iberia, you dramatically lessen their OTL impact. Maybe they find a spot to spark a rebellion. They certainly kept a lot of irons in the fire.
Southern Italy? They'd already intervened there once, to hinder French preparations for an invasion of Sicily. Check the Battle of Maida.
 
A bit about Hungary at the time: In the Napoleonic period the only real power in Hungary is the nobility. Cities are small and really not important. The nobility would like to be independent but not with Napoleons help. They fear for their position - what more would Napoleon bring than independence? AFAIK Napoleon offered independence to Hungary in either 1808 or 1809 but the Hungarian nobility declined it. Not to mention that in 1795 those few who might have supported Napoleon were killed or imprisoned.

To sum it up its hard to find a period in the history of hungarian nobility and the Habsburg family when the hungarians were more loyal. Whitout the nobles you cant run Hungary in this time period so Hungary would be something like Spain.
 
You mean the Sedish, not the Spanish? Spain was certainly a involved in the coaltin against Napolen but was never nvolved in the fighting in Germany. The Swedes were even if they tended to hang back.

You are however right in emphasising the importance of Austria's role in the autumn 1813 campaign.

Here there's the whole pic Spain included, 110.000 Spaniards vs 400000 Austrians

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