Recent content by Seek75

I made a thread about this just a few weeks ago, but New Netherland is definitely mine. As far as I'm aware, the consensus here is more or less that England would have inevitably conquered it. If the Dutch could've kept it for just a little longer, though, I think it could've been something like...

What is OTL New York/New Jersey/etc., yes.

Bump to try and see if I can get any responses.

With a PoD at any point after the establishment of New Netherland, have the Dutch maintain control of it until at least 1750. Bonus points if they retain control post-1800 and/or if New Netherland gains independence and keeps it. How does New Netherland's survival affect the development of...

If William V had been more willing to compromise with the Patriots, would the Stadtholderate/the old Republic have been able to survive? Or was it essentially canned as soon as the Batavian Republic was established?

Would there be any way to keep the position of Stadtholder in the Netherlands past the Napoleonic Wars without it essentially just being King in all but name? I'm American and most of what I've read has been online sources that may or may not be reliable, so forgive me if I am mistaken, but from...

The Confederation of North America (or CNA) is a semi-presidential confederation consisting of all former colonies of the British Empire in North America. Formed as a result of negotiations between dissatisfied colonists and the British government following the failed North American Rebellion...

It's hard to change because it is the basic blue-print for an over-arching government in the US. Laws in relation to specific circumstances and such can always be changed as the time goes on, but the idea behind the way the government is set up is that if there is a legitimate cause for concern...

The last post is from almost a year ago. What do you think?

Would it be possible to maybe see an alternate rampjaar, in which they perhaps consider some mild centralization? Something similar to the transition from the American Articles of Confederation to the Constitution, though I would think it'd be somewhat more loose, considering the nature of the...

Would there be any way to get a bicameral States-General out of a scenario in which the Staatsgezinden are successful? That's the only other thing that I'm looking for that you haven't already provided. An Alternate History of the Netherlands sort of does this, although there's a monarchy...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is, with a POD after the Act of Abjuration, to give the Netherlands a system of government similar to that of the United States of America before the passage of the 17th amendment (direct election of Senators) while still maintaining the...

That right there is what people from where I'm from like to call a signature.

I've never understood why people talk like Reconstruction was such a terrible time for white Southerners. As far as I can tell, Reconstruction was incredibly half-assed, with a vast majority of the things that were supposed to happen (like Thaddeus Steven's idea to give freed slaves 40 acres and...

He's taking about the most recent non-Italian Pope. Considering it would be 1700+ before a Latin American could even be thought about as being a potential candidate, that leaves a good 200 years at least of Italian Popes, which means a non-Italian doesn't look like he's going to have much of a...