If this was especially the case under Napoleon it was also true incipient even in the late 1820s. Simply because of it size France's recovery had implications in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas in the low counties and farther afield. Both the British and the russian attempt to influence events in the ottoman empire needed to take France into account. It was France much more than The wavering Hapsburg empire or even Britain which posed the chief military check to Russia during the crimean war it was France which undermined