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Editor says, what if the global elite had been challenged back in 1815? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the June 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1815, on this day anarchists detonated a huge bomb that destroyed a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich.
Anarchists blow up the Congress of ViennaThe attack was a well-timed move against the European monarchies who were seeking to form an elitist diplomatic structure known as the "Concert of Europe". This seemingly benevolent sounding title actually disguised an insidous conspiratorial attempt to impose a stifling reaction on the Continent which in the short term at least would have suppressed the rise of national and liberal impulses.
Europe had seen twenty-five years of almost continuous war that had resulted in two million dead. But the royal families of Europe were most deeply concerned with just one of those deaths, that being the execution of King Louis XVI. Ironically, the Commander of the Republican Forces, Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from his imprisonment on the island of Elba. And at the moment when the bomb was detonated, the ambassadors were finalising plans for a second restoration of the Bourbons. The War of the Seventh Coalition would still proceed, but the Eighth and Ninth would feature a slew of emerging nations hoping to establish a new European order.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Politicians Source: Wikipedia Labels: Congress of Vienna, Concert of Europe, Anarchists, Napoleon, War of the Sixth Coalition. Editor says, in this article we repurpose significant amounts of content from Wikipedia and relied upon helpful suggestions from Jeff Provine who writes ~ "If the Congress of Vienna diplomatically imploded (or perhaps was victim of terrorist attack?), then stuff like the Treaty of Fontainebleau could fall apart, leading to the wars dragging on without Napoleon abdicating".
~ Perhaps this action will galvanize Buonaparte into some sort of campaign to gain control of one of the European nations - France, perhaps?
~ This is some sick shiznit....
~ Eventually Europe would run out of young men to fight. No surplus for rampant world imperialism, at least.
~ This would have upended European history. because of this bombing If the Bourbon Restoration doesn't happen France remains a powerful, repressive empire and the Continent bleeds, perhaps leading to an 1848-style wave of revoutions as early as the 1820s--a wave of revolutions the monarchical old order might not be able to suppress as happened in our mid-nineteenth century.
~ And the wars would have dragged on and on. Eventually a peace of exhaustion would fall. And I doubt any "anarchists" would still be alive---they'd have been first on everybody's 'better dead' list.
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