2024年4月11日 · A Free Hand 1854 would be a turbulent year in European history. Not only would the Crimean War kick off in all earnest, but also in western Europe the borders would change. It all started a year earlier, in a minor country on the north sea coast. 1853 After the new constitution quasi-forced...

2020年4月18日 · During the alternate Crimean war, the Prussian kingdom saw this as a chance to attack French-allied German states and unite Germany, Prussia did this, and so joined in the side of Russia and Britain. The Prussians were successful, and this battle was in sorts a earlier version of the Franco Prussian war in our timeline, as Germany was united in ...

2012年10月5日 · Britain and France were finding that their war against Imperial Russia in the Crimea was going nowhere fast. The longed to open a second front and thus force a conclusion to the war. A decision had been reached to bring the war into the …

2019年3月16日 · Economically speaking, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire couldn't afford to fight Russia. If we consider Japan (another party that antagonised Russia), the Japanese economy was teetering from the Russo-Japanese War and they 1. had a larger population with a more developed industrial base than either and 2. won the war.

2018年7月11日 · Since I graduated last year, I have had this idea for a timeline based on a Crimean War which continued on for longer and ultimately leads to Russia losing its Great Power status. My primary sources for my work, and now this timeline Winfried Baumgarts was mainly “The Crimean War 1853 - 1856”...

2012年10月5日 · Pan-Slavic movement was about the Serbs, Bulgars, and technically Croats (who tended to be pro-Hapsburg). Historically, the movement was started by the Poles trying get their country back, the Poles back-tracked after the Russian took over the movement. Russia went all in to Pan-Slavic after the Crimean War, so you are right in it becoming an ...

2019年11月23日 · The problem was that fundamentally Austria's impulse was that intervening in the Crimean War was against many of her interests, that the appreciation of Russia was worth next to nothing compared to the animosity of France and Britain, the Empire's troubled finances being burdened with a military buildup, the threat of Kossuth Lajos and other ...

2014年4月10日 · What if Russia had won the Crimean War? I think Russia would have taken the victory as de facto permission to conquer the Balkans. They would probably say that they were freeing their Slavic brothers. It(IMO)probably would have hastened the death of the Ottoman Empire by 50-60 years.

2015年8月23日 · Actually, the possibility of an Austrian intervention had a lot to deal with the Russian decision to end the war; the Turks had already forced the Russians to withdraw from the Balkans in July of 1854, when the Austrians moved troops to the disputed territories (Romania and Bulgaria today, essentially) as what amounted to peacekeepers.

2022年3月16日 · If Russia and Austria stay allied in 1866, I don't see Bismarck risking the Austro-Prussian War. But no Austro-Prussian war probably screws both German and Italian unifications as we know them- the Italians used the A-P war to seize Venice and related territories, and the Prussians used it to pressure Bavaria out of the Austrian sphere of influence.