WI: Hungary withdraws troops

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During the 1848 Revolutions, the Hungarians chose to keep their troops fighting against the Sardinians, who were trying to unify Italy, in the hopes that the Austrians would reward them with more freedoms. By the time they realized this wouldn't happen, declared independence, and pulled their troops from Italy, the Sardinians had been defeated allowing the Austrians to focus on crushing the Hungarians (with help from the Russians). If Austria loses both Italy and Hungary, it's probable that Wilhelm I of Prussia would accept the "crown from the gutter" and we'd have a unified Germany 20 years before we got it IOTL and a democratic Germany 70 years before we got it IOTL. Needless to say, it would be a big deal. So if the Hungarians had declared independence just a few years earlier, would it do the trick?
 
From a Bonapartist Croatia and Slovenia was formed after Napoleon I's exile to St. Helena in an earlier ATL, this Bonapartist house would be Austrian Habsburg related. When Sardinians under the House of Savoy was fighting, Bonapartist Croatian troops with Austrian training and equipment would fight. Given Bonaparte influence in France and Italy, every one defeat on the Sardinians would carry a political connotation and make the Italian unification one step harder. However, if Bonapartist Croatian was defeated, Hungarian and Austrian would not be affected as much in the OTL or earn benefits because the struggle would become an underlying Italian and French in-house struggle for influence between Bonaparte, Sardinians and Naples.
 
During the 1848 Revolutions, the Hungarians chose to keep their troops fighting against the Sardinians, who were trying to unify Italy, in the hopes that the Austrians would reward them with more freedoms. By the time they realized this wouldn't happen, declared independence, and pulled their troops from Italy, the Sardinians had been defeated allowing the Austrians to focus on crushing the Hungarians (with help from the Russians). If Austria loses both Italy and Hungary, it's probable that Wilhelm I of Prussia would accept the "crown from the gutter" and we'd have a unified Germany 20 years before we got it IOTL and a democratic Germany 70 years before we got it IOTL. Needless to say, it would be a big deal. So if the Hungarians had declared independence just a few years earlier, would it do the trick?
The First Italian War of Independence ended in March of 1849.
The Hungarian Revolution began in March of 1848.
 
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