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Napoleon III in 1830by ~FederalRepublic

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Quite an excessive project with an equally excessive description:

The POD is that Napoleon III does not attempt and fail his coup d'etat in 1829, but instead launches a better planned one a year later and crowns himself Emperor of the French at the young age of 22 during the July Revolution. The currently on-going Belgian Revolt still succeeds, however Louis of Orléans becomes King of Belgium instead of Leopold, with Louis allinging Belgium with Great Britain. Meanwhile in Greece a Russian candidate taking the throne instead of Otto of Bavaria. Muhammad Ali of Egypt allings himself with the young Napoleon III and is able to defeat the Ottomans, who now only control a rump state in Rumelia and Anatolia.

The Habsburg monarchy effectivly ends with an alternate 1848 Revolution, in which Hungary gains its independence and Cisleithania fractures. Prussia then proceeds to crush the Revolution and effectivly unite the new, reformed German Confederation in the late 1860s. In Italy unification is somewhat halted, but North Italy is VERY prosperous. Russia "looses" the Great Game in Persia and has mediocre performances elsewhere. While it now dominates Central Asia it never was able to take Outer Manchuria (and thus Vladivostok). China collapsed during the Taiping Rebellion, which also led to the British takeover of Tibet and the "Pacified Southern Kingdom" in western Yunnan. Korea and Japan both modernized, with Japan being a naval power and Korea an "all-rounder".

In Africa colonialism in somewhat halted, with only France, Britain and Portugal controling a few territories further inland. The Sokoto Caliphate is a rising power and seen as a potential threat to both Egypt and France. In North America the US is having somewhat rough times with a worse perfomance against Mexico, a weaker stance in regards to Oregon and in the early 1860s a bloody civil war (a bit bloodier than OTL). Mexico recently got conquered by France (now under Napoleon IV) and is officially in personal union but currently under French occupation because of ongoing revolts (with the most legitimate and strong one being US-sponsored). The Pacific region is shared between the US, Germany, France and Britain, with American Papua being what Hawaii was in OTL (to some extent at least).

~QuantumBranching Apr 6, 2012

Did Japan get opened earlier (perhaps by the French?) in this world? Because they probably weren't strong enough to beat the Russians in 1891 in our world, certainly not enough to force them to disgorge Alaska and cut them out of the Vladivostok area...

~FederalRepublic Apr 7, 2012

Vladivostok was never founded since Russia fails to gain larger territories from a more lucky Qing China (before its more violent collapse anyway). Japan opened up slightly earlier than OTL (in the late 1850s here) and bought Alaska which remained Russian because they didn't find a buyer at first (the US not being interested in a worthless piece of land and Britain only wanted the panhandle which they got).

~QuantumBranching Apr 7, 2012

I'll note the Tai'ping revolution, which in your TL breaks the Qing, was 1850-1864: if they do better than OTL, the Manchu are probably in trouble from the mid-50s on, so Russia is in a good position to grab the Vladivostok area (which they obtained 1858-1860 in our timeline)pretty much in the same time frame, well before the Japanese can get their act together. Now it's possible that for some reason the Russians don't _try_ to grab the area (very thinly populated OTL) in spite of their historical port-lust, but I dunno why they would stand by while the Japanese essentially pinch it out from under their noses...perhaps the Qing try to "reassert their authority" in Korea or something, and get beaten by a Japanese-Korean alliance? So it's war spoils for a "defensive" war, as the Liaodang/Dalien peninsula is for Korea, and the Russians lack an immediate excuse for complaint...

~AmongTheSatanic Sep 12, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

Well, it is possible that the Russians could be intriguing for expansion in Central Asia and against the rump Ottomans. At that time period they had some high hopes for a port on the Persian Gulf, although that expansion is even more stunted here. Maybe they lost a war against Persia and were a bit butthurt and bitter for awhile, which kept them from entering into another war for fear of tarnishing their reputation again?

~AmongTheSatanic Feb 6, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

Gorgeous Egytian Sultanate is gorgeous

May I ask how colonialism was so stunted ? Lack of the Congress of Berlin would be the biggest thing, right ?

~FederalRepublic Feb 18, 2012

Indeed.

~lamnay Jan 13, 2012

Nice, I thought that it was Hungarian Papua for a while.

Looks the the Southern have managed to break away in Brazil. Is the Empire still around or did the republicans luck out here too?

~FederalRepublic Jan 14, 2012

Yeah, the American territory colour and the Hungarian colour are a bit similiar...
But regarding Brazil: It is an empire, albeit it had some severe reforms which resulted in the abolition of slavery and continued liberal politics. But since Rio Grande del Sur is staunchly republican the relationships only recently began to normalize.

~lamnay Jan 14, 2012

It's a problem that always seems to come up, eventually you run out of shades. Probably one of the reason I like extending and tweaking the pre-WWI status quo, only a few dozen countries to deal with.

Is old Pedro still emperor then?

~FederalRepublic Jan 14, 2012

No Pedro passed away in 1887 (he almost died during his stay in Milan for treatment) and Empress Isabel I rules now (with her husband Gaston d'Orleans still being the Empress' consort).

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