User blog:ChrisL123/No Franco-Prussian War??

New idea! Let's hope this works out.

So, from what I read, the reason for the Austro-Prussian War and ultimately the Franco-Prussian War was because Napoleon III violated his and Otto von Bismarck's agreement that France wouldn't get involved in Prussia and Austria's business as long as Prussia didn't let Austria to claim Venetia. The reason for the war is because Napoleon made an agreement with Austria to go to war with Prussia in order to retain Venitia.

But I had two things in mind for a timeline, which would probably go in different ways.


 * 1) Napoleon III doesn't make an agreement with Austria, maybe due to early kidney stone symptoms
 * 2) Napoleon III dies before he can make the agreement with Austria

I'm not sure what would be better overall, considering Napoleon would leave a child on the throne and to be honest I'm not sure if Napoleon's wife would take over, I always hated the concept of monarchy. Anyway, what I hoped for was that Napoleon does not make the deal with Austria, which meant that Prussia and France would have hopeful peace.

When it comes to alliances, I had planned that after the lack of assistance in the Crimean War and the fact that Austria and Russia had a bit of a feud in the Balkans and a possible feud between Prussia and Austria would mean the League of the Three Emperors would dissolve and a new alliance between France, Prussia and Russia would result. Would mean a totally different World War I and less likely World War II.

Does this sound plausible enough? Thanks. ChrisL123 03:55, March 28, 2012 (UTC)