The Young Napoleon
"This is no time to make new enemies."
-- Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan
I had been planning to write one additional post covering the Spanish, Italian and Russian theatres of the Second Napoleonic Wars (with a brief interlude in New England), besides the nearly-completely-drafted post #85 "The Sword and the Mind" which wraps up the Second Napoleonic Wars and the peace settlement.
Okay, so each of those theatres have turned into their own post. Sometimes I just write too much. There will be a post #84c coming up soon, showing Russia's part in the war. But one of the things I'm trying to show is how the events of the Second Napoleonic Wars, particularly for the losers, will set the history of Europe for the next two generations. I expect there to be quite a long peace in Europe after these events. These wars won't create bloodshed on the scale of WW1, but they will be severe enough to put a crimp in the idea of start war for glory's sake, at least in the Old World. They also serve to push certain aspects of military technology along a bit ahead of OTL, such as the experimental mortars which the Italians have deployed, and which will become more widespread as time goes on.
The world in Europe post-SNW will be a complex place. Italy will come out of the war rather well, but with internal struggles due to people believing that they could have done better. Spain will be broken into Aragon and Castile, but those separate nations may develop quite well. Russia is going to lose some territory, but the resultant internal changes will be quite positive for it in the long run. Germany, France and Britain are more complicated still.
Cheers,
Kaiser Wilhelm III
-- Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan
I had been planning to write one additional post covering the Spanish, Italian and Russian theatres of the Second Napoleonic Wars (with a brief interlude in New England), besides the nearly-completely-drafted post #85 "The Sword and the Mind" which wraps up the Second Napoleonic Wars and the peace settlement.
Okay, so each of those theatres have turned into their own post. Sometimes I just write too much. There will be a post #84c coming up soon, showing Russia's part in the war. But one of the things I'm trying to show is how the events of the Second Napoleonic Wars, particularly for the losers, will set the history of Europe for the next two generations. I expect there to be quite a long peace in Europe after these events. These wars won't create bloodshed on the scale of WW1, but they will be severe enough to put a crimp in the idea of start war for glory's sake, at least in the Old World. They also serve to push certain aspects of military technology along a bit ahead of OTL, such as the experimental mortars which the Italians have deployed, and which will become more widespread as time goes on.
The world in Europe post-SNW will be a complex place. Italy will come out of the war rather well, but with internal struggles due to people believing that they could have done better. Spain will be broken into Aragon and Castile, but those separate nations may develop quite well. Russia is going to lose some territory, but the resultant internal changes will be quite positive for it in the long run. Germany, France and Britain are more complicated still.
Cheers,
Kaiser Wilhelm III
posted by Jared at 6:45 am
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home