In 1750, Britain and France agree to send a combined force to attack and take China, what happens next? How does the invasion play out, how do other powers react, etc.
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This didn't happen, it's a thread asking what would happen as a result of it happening. WI = What If. Also year has been changed to 1750.What? Could you give the source please? Aren't France and England fighting against each other during the Austrian war of Succession at that time?
This didn't happen, it's a thread asking what would happen as a result of it happening. WI = What If. Also year has been changed to 1750.
This didn't happen, it's a thread asking what would happen as a result of it happening. WI = What If. Also year has been changed to 1750.
Britain and France lose thousands of soldiers and millions of francs/pounds fighting a force that outnumbers them 10 to 1, and armed with technology that's not too far behind the Europeans. Eventually, they both either withdraw or collapse when the people are no longer able to pay the exorbitant taxes necessary to fund the most idiotic military operation in human history.
Seriously, this would probably be almost impossible to pull off in 1850, let alone in 1750.
Britain did actually do it-sort of. Not conquest, but mostly extracting concessions.
Well conquering China would be pretty impossible. The sheer vastness of the country ensures that. However, didn't Britain and France launch joint (or concurrent) invasions of China during the second Opium war?
If it were to somehow happen, it would certainly tax the imagination of all parties concerned. A close race between the inefficiency of Qing China and the inadequacy of Western technology to the task.
Yes, they did. But the mid-19th Century is a very different time than the mid -18th Century, especially in terms of the relationship between France and the United Kingdom.
Mmm... I wouldn't rule the Qing out at this point. The Qing Empire is why China looks like China today, and not a state that goes no farther north than Beijing and west than Sichuan.
In 1750, Britain and France agree to send a combined force to attack and take China, what happens next? How does the invasion play out, how do other powers react, etc.
Aren't they going to need Spanish support? I can't see where else they can base out of. You can't invade China with a few thousand men, you need a few tens of thousands. You need to base somewhere nearby to recover from the journey, resupply and have a logistics launch point.
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