Various reasons stacked together, ultimately leading to the grand expedition plan never being realized in reality.
However, it must be said, even though the idea of the Franco-Russian coalition never materialized, just the plan itself was enough to give White Hall and Westminster Palace a fright.
During the Napoleonic Wars, to prevent possible invasions, Britain had long deployed approximately 50,000 troops on the northwest border of India.
Perhaps for land-power nations like Russia and France, fifty thousand might not be a particularly large number.
But to know, for a sea-power nation like Britain, even during the most intense period of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain's standing army did not exceed 200,000, meaning Britain dispatched as much as 20% of its army to the South Asia Subcontinent.
And this was precisely what Arthur noticed; he understood that no matter which country, for whatever reason they set eyes on India, it would cause divine tension in White Hall.
