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  1. Anglo-American War in 1792-1804 Timeframe: Strategies?

    Pretty much what it says on the tin. Due to whatever combination of circumstances - more moderate French Revolution, failed Jay Treaty, earlier Jefferson Administration in the U.S., a better French Ambassador to the U.S. than Citizen Genet, etc., the British Empire and the United States end up...

  2. Old Fashioned EU2 World Conquest AAR!

    Hey all, I've started an old-fashioned Europa Universalis 2 (actually For the Glory) Ottoman world conquest AAR over at the Paradox Forums! There's not a lot of action over there these days, so I thought I'd post this over here...

  3. British and American Plans if War breaks out in 1793?

    I have in mind a scenario in which a different French Revolution leads to Anglo-American war, with the Americans as a declared French ally, in 1793. Washington is still President and Pitt still Prime Minister. How would the two sides proceed militarily?

  4. Ambassador Lafayette: Anglo-American War in 1793

    1793, Philadelphia. In OTL, the Girondins, after taking power in Revolutionary France, sent perhaps the worst possible ambassador to the United States, Edmond-Charles Genet. "Citizen Genet," as the representative of America's crucial ally in the War for Independence, now representing a fellow...

  5. Napoléon et la conquête du monde, 1812-1823

    Does anyone know how to find a copy online of "Napoléon et la conquête du monde, 1812-1823," purportedly the first modern alternate history? Written by Louis Geoffroy, 1836, and surprisingly hard to track down.

  6. Timur Invades Ming China, 1405

    What if Timur had lived through the plague that killed him in 1404 and followed through on his plan to invade the Ming Dynasty, allied to the remnants of the Yuan? Could Timur succeed in conquering China? What would the effects of his rule be? Would Islam become more prominent in China, perhaps...

  7. What does a United Baltic Duchy look like?

    Standard fodder for CP victory scenarios is the United Baltic Duchy, consisting of Courland, Livland and Estland (modern Latvia and Estonia almost exactly). The ruling population is the Baltic Germans, and the Kaiser rules the three Duchies in personal union. Sometimes, it is posited that they...

  8. WI: Romney and Obama come to blows at Hofstra Debate?

    From conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer today: "Fight night at Hofstra. The two boxers, confined within a ring of spectators — circling, feinting, taunting, staring each other down — come several times, by my reckoning, no more than one provocation away from actual fisticuffs, of the...

  9. Jerusalem as Capitol of a Major Empire

    I was thinking about some of the recent threads on butterflied Islam; one possibility mentioned was that the Arabs embraced Judaism. It got me thinking - what if there was a Jewish "caliphate" - an Arab based, Perso-Byzantine influenced empire stretching roughly from the Oxus to the Nile (or...

  10. Ideal Sevres (for Everyone but Turkey)

    I have a complicated theory as to an amended Sevres that attempts to give everyone what they want. Except the Turks, that it, they'd get screwed. Here are my presumptions as to the aspirations of concerned parties: The Powers: Britain is committed to both the Arab Revolt and the Jewish...

  11. How much could Cesare Borgia conquer?

    This is a topic I don't know nearly as much about as I should, but: with a POD no earlier than the ascension of Alexander VI, how much territory could Cesare Borgia conquer for himself and, eventually, the Papal States? I understand that Pisa and Siena were next on the agenda when his Holy...

  12. AHC: Baltimore still "culturally Southern" in 2000

    Baltimore in the 19th Century was considered the South's largest city; Baltimore during the Civil War was a hotbed of Confederate sympathy. Even in the 1930's, the Baltimore Sun still billed itself "the largest newspaper in the South." Baltimore's H.L. Mencken has a surprisingly Southern accent...

  13. Colloquial Term for U.S. and C.S. citizens in Latin America after a CS Victory?

    So in Mexico in particular and the Latin American world more generally, we have a number of terms for Americans OTL. The most common historically (less so in Mexico) is "americano", which has the advantage of being what U.S. citizens call themselves but the disadvantage of literally meaning, in...

  14. Jewish SSR in Kaliningrad and Israel after the Fall of Communism

    It's been posited before that Stalin creates a Yiddish-speaking Jewish SSR in Kaliningrad (which will be what here, Litvinovgrad? Kamenevgrad?) Presumably few Central European survivors wish to move here even if the alternative is Cypriot DP camps, so lets say that its populated by the bulk of...

  15. WI: Tolkien lives longer?

    What if J.R.R. Tolkien lived to be eleventy-one (111 years old), dying in 2003? What if, furthermore, he maintains full mental and reasonable physical capabilities throughout his long life? I don't mean this to be ASB, just very lucky. Any ideas as to the sort of developments we could see...

  16. How big could the Inca have gotten?

    Presuming, for whatever reason, a delayed European contact, how large could the Inca Empire have reasonably grown with another century? That is, with OTL Inca levels of technology and any reasonable developments they might have made. Was the OTL empire at or near its geographical peak? Or was...

  17. Can Grossdeutchland and France be allies after 1848?

    In a Spring of Nations TL, can a liberal-ish France and a Frankfurt Diet Grossdeutschland remain allies as the center of a proto-EU. I'm assuming a united Italy, an independent Hungary, and a Habsburg collapse. A united Scandinavia is optional, as is Galicia and Congress Poland successfully...

  18. South Florida in a Confederate Victory TL

    I don't have much to throw out here but the premise. However, in 1860, I believe there's very little south of Tampa besides Key West and a few forts and trading posts. How would South Florida develop in an independent CSA? Most of the big developers of the Turn of the Century IOTL (Flagler...

  19. America takes Canada: Quebec Federalist or Democratic-Republican?

    In your standard TL where the US takes Upper and Lower Canada and Nova Scotia in the ARW, and Quebec and Nova Scotia become the 14th and 15th colonies. Presuming that the Washington administration and the outbreak of the French Revolutionary wars are roughly similar to OTL. Where does Quebec...

  20. A Different Alamo, A Different Texas

    What happens if the Texians win the Siege of the Alamo? Specifically, Fannin, or someone replacing him, does not dawdle and marches his forces to the Alamo, which holds out until Houston can arrive with his large volunteer army. (Does this POD work? How long can the Alamo hold out with more...
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