The Peace of Westphalia guarantees portuguese independence under the terms of the OTL Restoration War. The Dutch metropolis pours A LOT of money into WIC and VOC, New Holland can survive, and the spaniards decide it would be a good idea to enter the competition in the East Indies. They promote a invasion of Johor and VOC obviously intervenes and gets them out of there. And with this manages to just annex all of Johor to the company's domains.
The two Cromwells are able to keep the Commonwealth United and Republican, but with the clear intervention and boldness of the Dutch companies in their actions, the Netherlands eventually gain a coalition due to their overpower. (With New Holland succeeding, it has basically sugar monopoly and decide who enters Indonesia or not).
And so comes the Grand Alliance, made up of Portugal, Spain, The Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland and Austria, France is also invited for the alliance, but don't responds the call. Louis XIV sees this as a clear opportunity to have a strong allied navy, and soon contacts the Republic about a possible secret alliance between the two. Seeing itself completely diplomatically isolated, the Republic accepts and together with France plans for a preemptive strike against the coalition.
This preemptive strike took place on 22 October, 1662. In response to hostilities to dutch trade by the Spanish. Nothing less than a total invasion of Cuba, with the island capitulating to WIC forces in just over a month.
The coalition responds with war, but the french and dutch responds with a invasion of the Austrian Netherlands. The King Louis' War has begun.
(This is a timeline that i made a months ago, this thread is to me see the reaction for the timeline, any comments and/or feedback will be helpful)
The two Cromwells are able to keep the Commonwealth United and Republican, but with the clear intervention and boldness of the Dutch companies in their actions, the Netherlands eventually gain a coalition due to their overpower. (With New Holland succeeding, it has basically sugar monopoly and decide who enters Indonesia or not).
And so comes the Grand Alliance, made up of Portugal, Spain, The Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland and Austria, France is also invited for the alliance, but don't responds the call. Louis XIV sees this as a clear opportunity to have a strong allied navy, and soon contacts the Republic about a possible secret alliance between the two. Seeing itself completely diplomatically isolated, the Republic accepts and together with France plans for a preemptive strike against the coalition.
This preemptive strike took place on 22 October, 1662. In response to hostilities to dutch trade by the Spanish. Nothing less than a total invasion of Cuba, with the island capitulating to WIC forces in just over a month.
The coalition responds with war, but the french and dutch responds with a invasion of the Austrian Netherlands. The King Louis' War has begun.
(This is a timeline that i made a months ago, this thread is to me see the reaction for the timeline, any comments and/or feedback will be helpful)