some in Prussia supported the idea of joining with Austria to contain the bonapartist French threat in the late 1850s. What if Prussia sided with Austria? What is the most likely outcome?
Hate telling you this, but actually they did enter (nominally) the war under the chart of the German Confederation. By the time Prussia had complete its mobilization, the war in Italy was over (armistice of Villafranca). After this less than stellar performance, the re-organization of Prussian military really started and the performance in 1864 (Schleswig-Holstein) and 1866 (Austria) showed the differencesome in Prussia supported the idea of joining with Austria to contain the bonapartist French threat in the late 1850s. What if Prussia sided with Austria? What is the most likely outcome?
France is not going to take Rhineland and Rhineland is way bigger than Alsace-Lorraine so the comparison can´t stand.It most likely wouldn't, but let's say the Kaiser decides it's a great idea and since he is the absolute monarch nobody questions him. Prussia wasn't nearly ready modernizing, and yet France was on the decline itself. Most likely either Sardinia is gonna get crushed and France will decide that fighting two empires isn't the best idea, the French win and take the Rhineland, turning the Rhineland into a kind of Alsace Lorraine, or someone like England or Russia steps in and the whole situation gets ten times more confusing.
Then maybe the Saar. Either way, France will probably at least try to do the old "two massive armies battle it out, whoever wins takes a piece of land away from the looser and everyone goes home" method of warfare, but in the Age of Nationalism it will backfire horribly.France is not going to take Rhineland and Rhineland is way bigger than Alsace-Lorraine so the comparison can´t stand.
Hate telling you this, but actually they did enter (nominally) the war under the chart of the German Confederation. By the time Prussia had complete its mobilization, the war in Italy was over (armistice of Villafranca).
I voted for revolution.
Five years after Crimea?Any thoughts on what the Tsar might do?
He had no fondness for Austria, but if King Wilhelm I (his uncle) had entered the war, might he have reconsidered?
Five years after Crimea?
What Kaiser are you talking about? Prussia does not have a kaiser.It most likely wouldn't, but let's say the Kaiser decides it's a great idea and since he is the absolute monarch nobody questions him. Prussia wasn't nearly ready modernizing, and yet France was on the decline itself. Most likely either Sardinia is gonna get crushed and France will decide that fighting two empires isn't the best idea, the French win and take the Rhineland, turning the Rhineland into a kind of Alsace Lorraine, or someone like England or Russia steps in and the whole situation gets ten times more confusing.
Meant emperor. Sorry about that.What Kaiser are you talking about? Prussia does not have a kaiser.
Prussia is.just a kingdom at this point IIRC.Meant emperor. Sorry about that.
You mean King, or in German- Koning. Prussia never had an emperor (kaiser).Meant emperor. Sorry about that.
König, actually. Koning is Dutch.You mean King, or in German- Koning. Prussia never had an emperor (kaiser).
Well Wilhelm too was not exactly pro-Austrian: Prussia was still smarting after the humiliation suffered at the end of 1850 at Olmutz, when they had been forced to dismantle the Union of Erfurt and to enter again the German Confederation, accepting that the Austrian Emperor would be always the President. When Austria declared war on Sardinia (and was counterdeclared by France) Prussia was forced to start mobilization in accordance with the charter of the Confederation, but it is quite possible that their effort may have been even less speedy than justified by the still messy status of the Prussian armyQuite. He was annoyed with Franz Josef, for letting Russsia down in the Crimean War. But he was closer to Wilhelm do just conceivably.
Well Wilhelm too was not exactly pro-Austrian: Prussia was still smarting after the humiliation suffered at the end of 1850 at Olmutz, when they had been forced to dismantle the Union of Erfurt and to enter again the German Confederation, accepting that the Austrian Emperor would be always the President. When Austria declared war on Sardinia (and was counterdeclared by France) Prussia was forced to start mobilization in accordance with the charter of the Confederation, but it is quite possible that their effort may have been even less speedy than justified by the still messy status of the Prussian army