Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

The house was leaking and it rained all night. The Confederate States of America attacked Canada in North America. The Lincoln administration appeased the Confederate States of the Southern States. The Davis administration began to face the dissatisfaction of the people under its jurisdiction who were averse to the protracted war. The Confederate States actually After Middle Tennessee failed to counterattack, it chose to sit on its hands.

This made British Prime Minister Clayton very angry.

In half a month, the UK will hold a formal prime ministerial election. Nowadays, public dissatisfaction with the Whig Party is intensifying, and the Tories are also adding fuel to the fire, making everything seem to be very bad for the Whig cabinet.

What is even more disgusting is that French Napoleon III actually chose this time to attack the Kingdom of Siam in the Far East, and Queen Victoria had asked the cabinet government to express dissatisfaction with France.

However, after sending two telegrams, Napoleon III gave various excuses, which made the Creston cabinet government very passive.

Napoleon III apparently chose to ignore Britain.

On the Balkan Peninsula, the Anglo-Russian negotiations failed again and again because the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were unwilling to reconcile easily.

When I think of this, I really feel a headache.

These have invisibly diverted most of the energy of the British cabinet.

Just when he was about to rush to Buckingham Palace to report the latest situation to the Queen, news suddenly came that caught him off guard. The report had to be rewritten, and an emergency cabinet meeting was held.

It turned out that when the Tsarist Empire was negotiating the armistice peace talks on the Balkan Peninsula with the United Kingdom, it actually advanced southward from the Crimean Peninsula and the Caucasus in the eastern Black Sea and entered the Georgian-Rugia region and A-Serbai, the territories of the Ottoman Empire. Xinjiang region.

Although the Ottoman Empire was more wary of the Tsarist Empire, it mainly focused on the Balkans. What's more, Tsarist Russia was negotiating with the United Kingdom now. The top officials in Constantinople were paralyzed by the Tsarist Russian Empire's negotiation actions. Unexpectedly, the Tsarist Russian Empire There was a sudden surprise attack in the Caucasus, and even the 50,000 local Ottoman Empire defenders were caught off guard in an instant due to the calculations of Tsarist Russia.

Northern Georgia and northern Azerbaijan were easily captured by the Russian Empire. After the 50,000 Ottoman Empire suffered 20,000 casualties, they had no choice but to evacuate from the city of Welchik in the north to the west. 30,000 Ottoman soldiers evacuated to the edge of the Black Sea. The city of Sukhumi.

As for the Armenian garrison in the south, 20,000 troops rushed north and were stationed in the capital Tbilisi. Another 10,000 troops went north from the southern city of Hankend, which was on guard against the Persian Empire, to the city of Baku in the west of the Caspian Sea.

As a result, there were only 10,000 people left in the city of Khand. If the Persian Empire provoked Khand at this time, the pressure on the Ottoman Empire would be really great.

The predicament of the Ottoman Empire suddenly made Britain, which had just prepared to escape from the Balkans, once again helplessly find that it was dragged back again.

This is Crichton's first time as British Prime Minister, so he is very unfamiliar with foreign relations. Faced with the unprecedented changes that Britain is facing in a century, he, a new recruit, is instantly under tremendous pressure.

How could Queen Victoria still sit in Buckingham Palace at this time?

So he came out to direct in person.

On November 25, 1866, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom sent Crown Prince Edward to St. Petersburg to hold talks with Crown Prince Nicholasjevich and paid a courtesy visit to Alexander II. During the visit, Alexander II was unwilling to talk to Crown Prince Edward. Regarding the issue of the Caucasus, the other party made it clear that Queen Victoria had warned that if the Russian Empire continued to launch a southern invasion of the Caucasus, Britain would choose to shrink on other fronts to fully respond to the Russian Empire's southern invasion.

Many people have analyzed that it is obvious that after watching the Russian Empire capture Romania in the Balkans, Britain then captured nearly half of the Ottoman Empire's northern Georgian territory and northern Azerbaijan.

If the United Kingdom continues to allow Tsarist Russia to continue like this, the army of the Tsarist Russian Empire will soon appear in the Mediterranean where Britain currently has the upper hand.

As for the Caucasus, as long as the Georgian and Azerbaijani regions are captured, the Tsarist Russian Empire can border the Persian Empire. If the two countries unite at that time, the Ottoman Empire will face the dilemma of comprehensive pressure from the east. Even if the Tsarist Russian Empire and Persia If the imperial relationship is in place, maybe we can use the Persian Empire to get an outlet in the Indian Ocean. This is a very dangerous thing for Britain.

Therefore, Britain's sense of crisis made Queen Victoria couldn't help but stand up and toughen Britain's invasion of Tsarist Russia.

The Creston government, which originally wanted to stop Napoleon III from invading the Kingdom of Siam in the Far East, was delayed by the Russian Empire's southern invasion of the Caucasus.

Seeing the opportunity, Napoleon III once again mobilized 50,000 troops from France, crossed the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, and arrived in South Vietnam in early December. However, by this time, the Kingdom of Siam seemed to have trained a lot of new soldiers. When the French After the additional troops arrived, they discovered that of the 30,000 troops in the Far East, there were only less than 10,000 left. In other words, in less than a month, France had lost more than 20,000 in the Far East.

These 50,000 people just came up as substitutes, which was only 30,000 more troops than before.

This made Napoleon III's Governor-General Matthias in South Vietnam very angry. So when the 50,000 new troops landed at Vinh Long Port at the mouth of the Mekong River, he couldn't wait to mobilize his troops. With the cooperation of 20,000 army and navy , advancing towards the sea of ​​Cambodia, the French Empire's navy blocked the entire Cambodian coast, shelling Kampot Port, Sihanoukville Port, and Koh Kong Port from east to west, but strangely, France did not attack the Bangkok area west of Cambodia. To harass. Under the bombardment of the Cambodian port, Kampot was quickly occupied by the attack of 20,000 French troops.

The news quickly spread back to Paris, and Napoleon III was relieved.

Afterwards, the port of Sihanoukville was also captured, and so far the entire southeast was captured by France. However, at Koh Kong Port, they did encounter strong resistance, and France encountered unprecedented obstruction.

So France began to fall into a long war with the Kingdom of Siam in Cambodia for several years.

For William IV, the global focus was originally only on the confrontation between Britain and the American Commonwealth in North America.

The great power game in South America is now about to end with the French invasion of the Kingdom of Siam in the Far East and the Tsarist Russian Empire's southern invasion of the Ottoman Empire. Negotiations on the Balkan Peninsula can be put on hold.

Coupled with the start of a full-scale war between the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of America in North America, and the dangerous actions of the small country in Paraguay and South America that are eager to provoke the big powers, there will be regional chain reactions. These, no matter what the outcome, are bound to change the global pattern.

The major powers and small countries in Europe and the United States have their own calculations. Britain and France, who are also major powers in Western Europe, although France responded to the Russian Empire's invasion of the Balkans and the Caucasus, had completely different attitudes, so France had reservations, which made Britain very jealous and dissatisfied.

Prussia was licking the wounds it suffered when it unified the German Confederation, and slowly integrated the national strength of these small countries for its own use. Seeing other countries attacking cities around the world, the ambitions of Prime Minister Bismarck and William I were also aroused, but they did not Waiting for a favorable opportunity.