Post by eurofed on Oct 8, 2017 19:25:55 GMT
With a PoD occurring during the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon is eventually defeated much the same way as OTL, but a postwar settlement is established that leads to a rather greater territorial consolidation in the hands of the great powers, more expansion for the early USA, and an harsher peace deal for France and Turkey. ITTL the great powers are not really interested in restoring the pre-1789 situation for its own sake, granting a lenient peace to defeated France, or keeping the Ottoman Empire alive. They instead push for a territorial settlement that benefits all of them first and foremost.
- Russia gets its OTL territories, plus Posen, Galicia, Moldavia, most of Wallachia, Ottoman Armenia-Assyria, and Persian Azerbaijan.
- Prussia gets its OTL territories without Posen, plus Saxony, Hanover, Palatinate, Luxemburg, Hesse, and Nassau.
- Austria gets its OTL territories without Galicia, plus Bavaria, Parma, Modena, Lucca, Tuscany, most of the Papal States except Latium, Oltenia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania.
- Alsace and Lorraine (all of it, not just the portion Germany took in 1871) are carved out in a Kingdom of Lorraine with the Wettin on the throne, Switzerland becomes a Kingdom of Burgundy with the Wittelsbach on the throne, both join the German Confederation. Franche-Comte is partitioned between Lorraine and Burgundy. Thuringia is consolidated into a Grand Duchy with the House of Hesse on the throne.
- The Kingdom of the Netherlands gets its OTL territories without Luxemburg, plus the French Flanders. France is more or less pushed back to its 16th century borders. Sardinia-Piedmont gets its OTL territories plus Corsica. The Pope keeps Latium. Italy becomes a confederation like Germany. Dynastic changes lead to an early dissolution of the personal union between Britain and Hanover, and the British ruling elites are not interested in having possessions on the continent. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden establish a dynastic union.
- Bulgaria and Greece merge into a Kingdom that gets Macedonia, Thrace, Crete, the Aegean Islands, the Turkish Straits, and Cyprus. Palestine and Lebanon are carved up in the restored Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Ottoman Empire loses all its possessions in Europe, Armenia-Assyria, Palestine, and Lebanon.
- Spain restores the Iberian Union with Portugal and gets Roussillon.
- the USA gets all its OTL territories, annexes Canada thanks to its victory in the war with Britain (which takes place in the 1800s) and gets Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Texas, California, the Southwest, and northern Mexico up to the Tropic of Cancer thanks to its successful intervention in the Spanish-American Independence Wars. It may acquire Louisiana much like the OTL way, or conquer it during the Napoleonic Wars. New Spain (central-southern Mexico and Central America) and New Grenada (Colombia and Venezuela) become client states of Mexico. Brazil becomes an independent empire (and a client state of Britain) with the Braganza on the throne.
- Britain annexes the Dutch, French, and Portuguese colonies, the Boer states, and the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Brazil).
- Russia gets its OTL territories, plus Posen, Galicia, Moldavia, most of Wallachia, Ottoman Armenia-Assyria, and Persian Azerbaijan.
- Prussia gets its OTL territories without Posen, plus Saxony, Hanover, Palatinate, Luxemburg, Hesse, and Nassau.
- Austria gets its OTL territories without Galicia, plus Bavaria, Parma, Modena, Lucca, Tuscany, most of the Papal States except Latium, Oltenia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania.
- Alsace and Lorraine (all of it, not just the portion Germany took in 1871) are carved out in a Kingdom of Lorraine with the Wettin on the throne, Switzerland becomes a Kingdom of Burgundy with the Wittelsbach on the throne, both join the German Confederation. Franche-Comte is partitioned between Lorraine and Burgundy. Thuringia is consolidated into a Grand Duchy with the House of Hesse on the throne.
- The Kingdom of the Netherlands gets its OTL territories without Luxemburg, plus the French Flanders. France is more or less pushed back to its 16th century borders. Sardinia-Piedmont gets its OTL territories plus Corsica. The Pope keeps Latium. Italy becomes a confederation like Germany. Dynastic changes lead to an early dissolution of the personal union between Britain and Hanover, and the British ruling elites are not interested in having possessions on the continent. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden establish a dynastic union.
- Bulgaria and Greece merge into a Kingdom that gets Macedonia, Thrace, Crete, the Aegean Islands, the Turkish Straits, and Cyprus. Palestine and Lebanon are carved up in the restored Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Ottoman Empire loses all its possessions in Europe, Armenia-Assyria, Palestine, and Lebanon.
- Spain restores the Iberian Union with Portugal and gets Roussillon.
- the USA gets all its OTL territories, annexes Canada thanks to its victory in the war with Britain (which takes place in the 1800s) and gets Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Texas, California, the Southwest, and northern Mexico up to the Tropic of Cancer thanks to its successful intervention in the Spanish-American Independence Wars. It may acquire Louisiana much like the OTL way, or conquer it during the Napoleonic Wars. New Spain (central-southern Mexico and Central America) and New Grenada (Colombia and Venezuela) become client states of Mexico. Brazil becomes an independent empire (and a client state of Britain) with the Braganza on the throne.
- Britain annexes the Dutch, French, and Portuguese colonies, the Boer states, and the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Brazil).
