WI france invades belgium in 1914

Anderman

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What would happened if france wanted to march through belgium in word war one ? Would great britain declare war on france ?
 
Technically, yes, even though that would mean putting ten years of British foreign policy upside down. But France's war plans never included going through Belgium - Plan XVII gad the French army go for Alsace Lorraine, which was France's war objective from the get-go.
 

Cook

Banned
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Prussia avoided violating Belgian neutrality on a warning from Great Britain.
The French were well aware that Britain would honour its treaty commitments to Belgium and was intent on re-fighting the war of 1870 anyway.
 

Susano

Banned
While GB was (like France and Germany, too) a guarantee power of Belgian neutrality I doubt theyd declare war on France. Theyd probably just remain neutral. But its unlikely to happen, anyway, as has been said.
 
IIRC one of the earlier French war plans involved an offensive into Belgium.

Anyway, I don't think Great Britain would declare war on France over Belgium, at least after 1904. It might express disapproval of some sort, maybe even sever relations for a brief period, but no war.
 
Did not this very topic come up less than one month ago?

It certainly did or even further. The fellow couldn't figure out the search engine I guess.

By 1914 the British and French are going to present a unified front against Germany. The Belgians would be told by London to allow the French forces to move thru - and more than likely the British Expeditionary Forces would also be moved thru Belgium to support the French. The Belgians aren't going to given much choice.
 

archaeogeek

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IIRC one of the earlier French war plans involved an offensive into Belgium.

Anyway, I don't think Great Britain would declare war on France over Belgium, at least after 1904. It might express disapproval of some sort, maybe even sever relations for a brief period, but no war.

I'm pretty sure that was one of the interwar plans, "once bitten twice shy" and all that. It was officially canned because the Belgians went whining to the Society of Nations that the french were not respecting their neutrality in thought.
 
No way would Britain declare war on France, the invasion of Belgium by Germany was a convenient excuse for Britain not the reason they joined the war.
 
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