alternatehistory.com

France was bound by the Treaty of Hanover of 1725 to aid the English, and the Austrians were similarly bound to the Spanish through the Treaty of Vienna of 1725. However, neither country honored their alliances when the Anglo-Spanish War broke out in 1727, leading to a breakdown and subsequent reversal of alliances. If the French and Austrians had intervened, would the Anglo-Spanish War have become a pan-European war on the scale of the Seven Years' War? I also remember reading somewhere that many observers at the time compared the alliances of the 1720s to those of the Thirty Years' War era, with Austria and Spain allied against the French and British. Would the conflict have repeated that devastating war and reaped havoc upon Germany? Or would something completely different have happened?
Top