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The title says all. Let's say that on this timeline Napoleon III takes a different strategy during the battle of Sedan, preventing being encircled and pushing the prussians back, resulting on a prolonged war that ends in status quo.

What are the ramifications? One thing we know is that Napoleon III was very popular, as the 1870 referendum showed him, and he kept some very liberal views, but of course he is going to die and we don't know much about Napoleon IV was literally killed by Zulus on a standoff a few years later. What are your opinions? And how this would affect the colonization of africa? Would this french empire hold their african possessions?
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