The treaties seem rmarquably lenient to Prussia and Austria. No territory loss? no sister republic established? no French protectorate over nearby german lands? not even a french vote in the HRE? no Rhine border for France? Venice not freed from Austrian boots? no freeing (parts of) Poland?
We annexed the Rhine the Last war, so there is that.
Venice now firmly under French Occupation.
Napoleon has no interests (Right now at least) To go stomping through Europe and start remaking all the maps to his liking.
Not yet at least, not until his house is cleaned up.
I know Talleyrand is a statu quo ante and balance of power man, who is thinking about not getting future foes but it seems to little, even for him. At least recent Prussian and AUstrian territory gains should have been reversed and unruly lands given freedom. Unless he is banking on Prussia and Austria influance collapsing and other German/italian territories falling naturally in the French sphere of influance?
We had no territorial ambitions because we already achived them in the last war.
this was just cementing them in such a way that it won't be reveresed without a total collapse of French authority.
As for why he did not take away territory:
Simple, He's smart enough to know that, while the French Army has been almost undefeated at this point, it's exhausted, and the people of France are exhausted from war.
We don't want another revolution starting from Bread Riots.
so did we do the doctrine for Men going out of the army?Because We just won and after the spanish situation is dealt with I think our army is going to shrink. and Having the infrastructure for that set up before it happens would be really nice.
Most men who demobilize will be given a pension based on rank, that is it. It will be up to the averege soldier and officer to find their way in the world.
And if we need to call them up, well, then we know those mad lads will show right up to kick ass again.
As for the Rhine...we have enough issues on hand as is. We really cant afford to both integrate the rhineland and patch the domestic problems at the same time.
We already have Alsase and Lorrain, and parts of the Rhine itself, just not the entire Rhineland.
Give it time.
Right.
I say we should at least TRY to save Spain. Spain being destroyed forever would not necessarily serve our best interests, frankly. Refugees, Chaos at our Border....no, I think we should at least try to stabilize the Peninsular before the Brits do.
A Shattered warzone in spain is not a good thing, either for us, or the rest of Europe.
Still The British Empire is in a bad spot, war with the US, in the hell hole that is Spain and fighting in India, and they have been losing a lot of ships that will make all the harder for them to keep there Empire
indeed.
But India is almost secure. so there is that.
