Why doesn't anti-Napoleonic coalition just partitioned and annexed France between themselves? Literally what stopped them?
They were warmongers, they cruelly occupied Europe for 30 years and they were completely defeated. I doubt would be even any popular resistance
Because Britain wanted to counterbalance Russia and later Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_power_(international_relations)
fpbp
Perfidious Albion
Old Europeans were fricking gay they surely had loved anal sex
In what? Preserving destroyer of Europe?
>Counterbalance Germany
>Don’t do anything to stop its rise even when they annex your cousin’s kingdom
Why are Bongs so bad at diplomacy?
The idea of Prussia successfully whipping Austria's sorry ass out of German politics and defeating France in short succession was basically unthinkable. Also the British public at this time felt quite secure with the Navy and channel keeping them out of continental affairs and Bismarck for his side was content to NOT piss off the Brits and avoided maritime adventures
They don't give af about that. Monarchs are just puppets. It was about a strong unified eurasia. Hence why they were so scared by the Lebensraum idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History
Turn France into decentralized princedom electorate and bishopric.
Same bongs fail secure to joined 1879 dual/later triple alliance?
Yeah. The British only ever cared that Europe wasn’t united under a hegemon, whether it was under the Spanish, the French or the Germans.
It's not just Britain, no country in Europe wanted to upset everything by deleting France.
Britain was a powerless b***h though
I pity Sweden, Denmark, Venice, Austria’s "Belgian" and Prussia pre-1789 territory
>Britain was a powerless b***h though
Literally the first thing anyone did when they went to war with Napoleon was to come hat in hand begging for British money
>begging for British money
Much like Pakis "beg for money" while raping your daughter
Balance my ass
Literally 10 years before the start of Napoleonic wars European countries split Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which whole existence was exactly this - counterbalancing Prussia and Russia
>European countries
Prussia, Russia and Austria
You are thinking with a modern viewpoint. This was a coalition of monarchies. From their point of view the enemy was not France but rather the idea of the revolution and the idea of the nation state. Their top priority was to restore a French monarchy as if the revolution had never happened.
>a post that makes sense
Common sense
>Waste money on expensive armies occupying France and dangerously upset the balance of power in Europe
ORRRR
>get your money reparations and pride back and then dip out because France is a useful keystone of European diplomacy
France would be literally ungovernable if that was the case. It probably had the strongest national identity on the continent, bar maybe England, and their armies had made themselves the masters of Europe less than a decade ago.
Not to mention that the allied invasion was aided by the defection of various French cities and garrisons (Bordeaux, Soissons, Nancy…) as the populace tired of war, which had gone almost uninterrupted since 1803, and did not want to see France ravaged so Napoleon could keep his throne. The allies had already promised that the Bourbons would be restored without seeking retributions from France, which is why the French did not start harrying the invading armies with guerrila warfare and Napoleon’s marshals implored him to abdicate so that the French were not put through even more war and suffering.
If the allies suddenly went back on their word and start partitioning France, the occupiers’ position in France would become very untenable.
>strongest national identity
Absolutely not. In the early 19th century the French authorities were still using force to teach everyone Parisean.
>Warmongers
In every single instance the coalition declared war on Napoleon, never the other way around
>Illegally usurper and occupy Europe
The truth hurt.
that happened every other day in Europe, France was special because it was revolutionary and too powerful
France was not special. No country was allowed to dominate Europe, as has already been explained multiple times in this thread and on this board before. See the first and second post for example. I don't understand why you keep up with this moronic coping when the right answer was already provided.
>why didn't the allies just cause a massive guerilla conflict and make the
french population see Napoopan as the saviour of Frogland instead of as the only obstacle for peace.
A question for the ages. No way Austria, Bernadotte or even the future Louis XVIIII will allow this, hell such a stupid ass move might actually revive the peace proposal that kept Napoleon in power.
>They were warmongers
Napoleon and France were loved by the masses all over Europe. Napoleon as 19th century Hitler is a shitty britbong propaganda.
>What is German Nationalism
>What is Russian peasants thinking Napoleon is the literal anti-Christ
>What is Spanish Guerilla war
>What is German Nationalism
Napoleon can't draft and tax us but it's okay if Kaiser does it on much bigger scales! Seig heil!!!!
>What is Russian peasants thinking Napoleon is the literal anti-Christ
>What is Spanish Guerilla war
Christcuck serfs unironically believing the stupidest shit that their clerical overlords told them while leeching off their money. No wonder both of them are still backwater shitholes.
>Napoleon and France were loved by the masses all over Eur-ACK
>From today's march on Madrid.
Even if they did decide do it, I don't think it would have lasted very long.
France was densely populated and full of angry people. Foreign occupation would become a rallying cry, and unite everyone against them. Thus, the coalition would need shit station shit of troops in France, to the point where they go bankrupt.
>They were warmongers, they cruelly occupied Europe for 30 years and they were completely defeated.
Delusional.
>Why doesn't anti-Napoleonic coalition just partitioned and annexed
what's it with the broken English OPs recently?
It was literally occupied for some years afterwards. The partition didn't happen because a big part of the reasoning of the coalitions was to restore Louis XVIII in the throne and restore the legitimacy of the Monarchy setting an example all over Europe. Those were romantic times and luckily for France, Realpolitik hadn't come around in force yet. A few decades later France would have lost huge chunks of territory to all his neighbors, and been partitioned too in several states, like Brittany, Occitania, Burgundy and whatever around the middle would get called.
The world wars and their consequences were a disaster for the field of armchair diplomacy
Ahhhh, what could have been...
Austria would reestablish Kingdom of Burgundy
Because a reasonably strong France could serve as a counter to the Austrians, Prussians, and to the British. If you frick up the balance of power in Europe too much by destroying France/weakening it too much, you invite more war.