History Student Reacts to the Congress of Vienna | Historia Civilis Reaction (Part 1/2)

Today we react to the first half of Historia Civilis's Congress of Vienna (Part 1). Let's learn about the next step following the massively destructive Napoleonic Wars.

[LightxHeaven]

I think Talleyrand's foreign policy of not imposing harsh peace treaties upon France's enemies was a sound idea in hindsight as Napoleon virtually guaranteed that Austria and Prussia would be out for blood the moment the opportunity presented itself, as seen in 1813.

[LightxHeaven]

Tsar Alexander surely imagined himself as the next Peter the Great. An enlightened autocrat that would bring change to Russia and assert its position on the global stage. Unfortunately his character made achieving that dream impossible when Russia arguably had the best opportunity to finally do so. And him comparing himself to Napoleon is absolutely hilarious considering he got absolutely clapped at Austerlitz 1805.

[LightxHeaven]

Just found you're channel and I'm liking what I'm seeing. Anyways, I'm not sure I'd agree with the asseration that there was a period of 99 years without any major great power conflicts. By any standard, the Franco-Prussian, Wars of Italian Unification etc. were major conflicts involving multiple major powers. Guess it depends on your defintion of the word " major". Wonder what you're thoughts are on this? I'm mean compared to the Napoleonic Wars those conflicts were localized and shorter in length but still a claim worth debating.

[Phase]

14:00 to be clear, is the civil war you're referring to the Jacobite Uprising in 1715? I got really confused because there was definitely a Tory led government right before that, which were responsible for setting up the South Sea Company

[nervachadikus]

Tbh I think Historia Civilis is wrong in saying that the defeat of Napoleon is more of a "group plan" than Russia beating him. If we look at the numbers most allied soldiers, especially in 1812/13, were Russians and let's not forget that over the course of those 3 years the Russians trained about 250.000 cavalry horses and send them to fight against Napoleon (certainly not every one saw action, but I think about 10.000 were sent to the "frontlines" every month and we all know how desperate the cavalry situation for Napoleon was).
Also I'm not quite sure what French armies he's talking about when he says there'd be some coming up from behind, all of those troops were being starved into surrender by the Russians.