Well one way might to be to make a stronger claim AFTER the Boxer Rebellion. Get a treaty port.
That's what I was thinking, and I seem to recall reading that the opportunity was there for Austria to have one, if they had expressed
the necessary interest. Of course, in our timeline the Empire...
Hello, all. Looking for some suggestions about what region/citie(s) in China could conceivably belong to the Austro - Hungarian Empire if the Government had decided to follow along with the Great Powers. NB, for this situation to be plausible, I am going to suggest that the Empire already has...
Would it be possible for Iraq to make itself "useful" to Russia in a similar way that Syria did? In Iraq's case, maybe really cheap oil (although they have lots of oil and gas of their own, so...maybe not) or perhaps a military base or two? In exchange maybe the USSR lends some support to help...
Such things are not solely the decision of the Prime Minister, though. It has to be presented to the House, and the Members vote on it. Is it going to pass? Maybe, but maybe not. Also, there is the mood of the electorate to consider.
As I explained previously, the concept of air power vs naval power was largely unexplored and dismissed until Billy Mitchell proved that it was feasible.
No. Air attacks on ships was not something conceived at all during the War. It was Billy Mitchell of the US who made the concept appear feasible, and it was through his campaigning in the halls of power that actual testing came about. "Mitchell continued to expound his views in speeches and...
The Franco - Prussian War had serious consequences for France, including including the downfall of Napoleon III. The only territory Bismarck demanded was the 'return'of Alsace, and part of Lorraine, as we know. However, I wondered: what would be the harshest terms possible that might be forced...
Austria may well want Bulgaria to get Macedonia for two reasons: 1)to further punish the Serbs; 2) to court favor with Bulgaria and gain influence in Sofia. Germany would be rather indifferent to what happened in the Balkans if peace is had in 1914. It was only later that German involvement and...
In our timeline, Spain had a pretty bad time in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars: by the early 1800s, all of her holdings in the Americas were gone. Now, at least in the case of Mexico from what I remember reading, the colonial elite who were holding power got upset because back in Spain a...
There's a possibility something like this could happen...Catharine the Great wanted to restore the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople for Russia. Austria would be quite happy to jump on board for Bosnia I'm sure, and probably Serbia as well - it was not til the age of nationalism that...