Lieutenant General Aimable Pélissier had originally planned to enter Switzerland directly through Roche Pass, but the Prussian barbarians proved even harder to reason with than he'd imagined.
Lieutenant General Aimable Pélissier had intended to throw his rank around and order the Prussian guards at Roche Pass to find someone qualified to negotiate with him.
As luck would have it, Prince William happened to be at the pass fortress. Pélissier had no choice but to stand there and take a tongue-lashing for ages before beating a hasty retreat back into France.
Even the "Iron Madman" didn't dare throw his weight around with the illustrious Prince of Grapeshot.
Prince William—the future German Emperor William I—was at the lowest point of his life. Dissatisfied with William IV's weak stance toward the revolutionaries, Prince William had gone to the Guards' barracks and incited the soldiers to suppress the uprising in Berlin.
Unlike the three days it had lasted in history, in this life Prince William and the people of Berlin had faced off for a whole week.
Hundreds, even thousands, died in the clashes, but the outcome remained unchanged.
King William IV of Prussia still chose to compromise. As punishment, he drove his younger brother, Prince William, out of Berlin.
Though it looked like punishment, in truth William IV was protecting his brother. Berlin was full of radical nationalists, and one day they might get carried away and do something drastic.
Besides, Prince William was no pushover. The more people wanted to assassinate him, the more he insisted on going where the crowds were.
So William IV sent his younger brother back to his fief. Prince William didn't like being cooped up in this little Swiss mountain backwater with nothing to do.
Instead, he set about remaking his entire fief as he saw fit,