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The Polish-Saxon crisis occured at the Congress of Vienna's attempts to redraw the map of Europe. In the horse-selling that was happening, Prussia wanted to annex the entirety of Saxony in exchange for giving up the Rhineland, while Russia would swallow the formerly Polish territory of Prussia.

Now Russia was backing Prussia to the hilt. OTOH Austria and France were wary of displacing the king of Saxony from Dresden to somewhere on the Rhine.

Anyway, there is a whole lot about it that I'm sure I've got wrong or mixed up, but say that Prussia-Russia won't back down or compromise, or Austria-France aren't willing to sell the king of Saxony down the river or whatever, and they start rattling the sabres and threatening war. How might things go down?
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