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I've also read that the Austrian were a shambles, having sent off their train and left without food or - more importantly - water. The hungry, thirsty troops were incapacitated by their own High Command. A better commander and not fucking up the basics and they'd had won Koenigsgratz with...

Makes sense. The Indian Army et consortes went hysterical over Russians marching thousands of kilometres across the deserts and mountains to pour out from the Khyber pass to get bigger budgets! Same as the RN c.1910 was spewing alarmist bullshit about the Hochsee Flotte to get more funding ...

I never understood the British body politik's mass hysterics about Russia somehow being a threat to India ... we have seen how it unfeasible it was, not working even with late 20th century logistics.

I've read that somewhere around this time Netherlands went from Bi-metallic Standard to Silver Standard and dumped their gold reserves on the French market. This put some sort of pressure on bi-metallism - the article I read on this went over my head at this point ... As to the increased supply...

Excellent point in bringing up the Panama Canal. Nice flashpoint :) Another possibility - French project wallows in the swamps (i.e. OTL situation) while the USA builds canal through Nicaragua or Costa Rica ...

Up to a certain point there also was the Republican Gov't. So Britain fostering "republics" in Cuba/PR and Philippines is not out of the question. Depends on where the people Her Majesty's Ministers went to school with invested their money. Loss von Rom was also a thing in Bavaria, Czechia...

Yes! Yes! Yes! The Dolchstosslegende fifty years earlier! The Austrians get recast from the shackled to a corpse legend to the much more kewl! good old stab in the back legend :) All the prussabos (no wehrabos here, sorry) would keep on going Dey so awesome and they'd had so like totally...

It is either restoring (if lost over the last 40 years) or preserving medieval-era privileges, not granting them new ones. The Carlist movement is complicated ... its support in the north was in major(?) degree based upon their association with preservation of Aragonese (Catalan) and Basque...

There is no such thing as impossible in politics. IIRC Russia sided with the Ottomans against Egypt in the mid 1830s.

Spain was mentioned - a different France may have bearing on the IIIrd Carlista War. Maybe French intervention to put Carlos on the Spanish throne? Or maybe France backs the Republic? Or breakup of Spain into Castille (republic? King Afonso?) and Aragon-Biscaya/Navarra (King Carlos)? Even a...

I could be a demographic of one and very wrong :) Looking at the wiki it seems that Russia was quite friendly to France once Nappy was kicked out (francophilia has as long and as strong tradition in Russia as germonophilia :)), and I'd guess that due to balance of power issues and/or hopes of...

I've seen a book on WWI quote a high level Russian (anonymous, IIRC) to some important German - "you ditch Austria and we drop France" - this in July 1914. Even if such sentiment falls into the se non e vero e ben trovato category I agree that a Paris-Vienna Axis of Evul! would do wonders for an...

Simply Russia no likey neither France nor A-H. France/Napoleon III - for the Crimean War and then inspiring the January Uprising in Poland; A-H/Franz Josef - for expressing its gratitude for Russian intervention in 1849 to put down Hungarian Revolt by "backstabbing" Russia during the Crimean...