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Inspired by a comment here:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=1733449&postcount=27

After the Napoleonic wars the English returned most of the Dutch colonies (including the Dutch trading posts in India). The British only kept the cape colony, which had an extremely strategic position), Ceylon and the western part of Guyana. And someone (I believe analytical engine) told me that Britain would have returned those colonies, if the Netherlands hadn't gained Belgium.

So what if the British had given back the Cape colony in 1815? How would southern Africa have developed from there?

And, in Europe, what other solution might have been found for Belgium if it had not been placed under the Netherlands? If it was a created as a buffer state separate from the Netherlands from the get-go, who would be chosen as ruling dynasty? Alternatively, I believe it was physically occupied by the Prussians at the time, might it have become Prussian?
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