Williamite War

Is such a situation realistic to your mind?

  • Yeah

    Votes: 8 30.8%
  • Not sure

    Votes: 10 38.5%
  • Definitely not

    Votes: 3 11.5%
  • I don't give a damn

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • Total voters
    26
Let's just all stand in a circle and sing a song about Johnnie Cope.
whom?
Either way, France goes northwards VERY brutaly in the Spanish Succession War.
On the long-term I think we could end up with a personnal union between France and Great-Britain if the Jacobites end up winning that war.
 
whom?
Either way, France goes northwards VERY brutaly in the Spanish Succession War.
On the long-term I think we could end up with a personnal union between France and Great-Britain if the Jacobites end up winning that war.

HOW will we see a personal union exactly?!? If James II/James III is restored then dies childless along with Louisa Maria, chances are the line of succession will be ignored. No one is gonna crown Louis XV King of Great Britain and Ireland.
 
If a Franco-Spanish union takes place, plus the netherlands swallowed by France, the two of them, with Britain their ally, are absolutely unstoppable. I don't think ANY of the other countries in Europe would accept such a consequence, it would be suicidal - unless they somehow convince Louis XIV it is the right time to go on a crusade, like his ancestor long, long ago.
 
If a Franco-Spanish union takes place, plus the netherlands swallowed by France, the two of them, with Britain their ally, are absolutely unstoppable. I don't think ANY of the other countries in Europe would accept such a consequence, it would be suicidal - unless they somehow convince Louis XIV it is the right time to go on a crusade, like his ancestor long, long ago.

Now that is interesting. There can be, as I have already said, a tension between conservative Spain and France, which is more inclined to liberalism in OTL. There is Austria, rising Prussia and Russia out there still. But together with Italian lands of Spain and Rhineland territories occupied by France and pro-french Bavaria...That would be a hell of a Western Empire. Dream of Charlemagne and Napoleon.
 
Hmmm. What would happen to Napoleon then? If he were to rise as the Emperor / Connétable of France-Spain, we could truly have France-Spain ending as the Western Roman Empire - all it needs is invade the Swiss (hard but doable), Maghreb (no more pirates, still agradable; colonisation starts earlier). It can even go on and raid Constantinople.
 
Hmmm. What would happen to Napoleon then? If he were to rise as the Emperor / Connétable of France-Spain, we could truly have France-Spain ending as the Western Roman Empire - all it needs is invade the Swiss (hard but doable), Maghreb (no more pirates, still agradable; colonisation starts earlier). It can even go on and raid Constantinople.

Not sure. He may not even exist in this world. Well, considering that he does, he may become a distinct military leader. Or he may not. In order to have him as an Emperor you need a revolution. Would there be such a if France was that much successful?

Yeah. Or they can do the Napoleon's thing with Swiss. Sign a treaty, leave their internal cases to them own and make their soldiers fight in your army.

Not sure about attacks on Turks. They can be allied with Empire against Russia and Austria.
 
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