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??? Britain offered a joint declaration to prevent a French lead 'holy league' attempting to restore the Spanish empire in mainland by force. Not wanting to be connected to Britain but knowing that the RN would do the hard work for them anyway Monroe made his famous declaration. It may...

Some interesting butterflies here. Going to have a very resentful Russia and I wonder whether they would move the capital back to Moscow as depending on the exact Finnish border St Petersburg could be very exposed. French success in NE Asia would make them big opponents of Russia and you could...

Pretty certain he's referring to the Congress of Vienna which ended the Napoleonic wars.

Sorry about the late response. To be honest while I've read that Austria was nudging towards war against Russia I'm not sure about why or what they intended to achieve by doing so. Checking the wiki entry for the crimean war it talks about a possibility of Prussian hostility towards Russia...

Internally not too much possibly although it would mean more Slavs, possibly a lot more. Mind you that might not be as important in the mid 1850s'. However it would make the Poles especially a 3rd nation in the empire and could upset the internal balance of power, depending on how much of...

If Austria declared war and Russia didn't make peace quickly I could see unrest in Poland, whether Austria wanted it or not. However that is likely to make some in Vienna cautious as they would realise what the Poles really want is independence or at least a large measure of major autonomy...

Well IIRC the growing threat of this was something that helped prompt the Russians to come to terms, as well as their defeats in the south and a British threat to St Petersburg. Which was not well received OTL given Russian aid to Austria less than a decade before in helping suppress the...