Recent content by Wendell

To an extent, and, again, in the places already mentioned. Also, it's not clear that this is an invasion more than it is a sale, and the difference in culture and population is less than in other areas the U.S. gained historically, and to the extent that this is not so, the population in...

Does anyone know why Vilhemine Marie of Denmark had no children from either marriage?

I don't get this notion that there was much of a hard Canadian nationalism outside of pockets around Toronto and Halifax before Confederation.

How much of the Congo basin could Tippu Tip have conquered if Leopold's Congo Company was not doing its thing?

I actually think Arizona would be a plausible name where you've established Hidalgo.

Beautiful. No African portion of the empire?

I guess I have to keep working on my map then.

France would give up direct control of Italy, but not indirect control. Perhaps the Italian Republic set up in 1802 OTL ends up with Piedmont and Liguria also, with Joseph Bonaparte as its leader.

Didn't the British almost trigger a war against Russia in 1801 or 1802?

What's going on in OTL western Afghanistan?

I sort of outlined a vague concept for this once in which the approach was to have the states of north and south convene delegates to develop a new constitution the adoption of which would supersede the previous ones and herald the Federation of American States.

Interesting. That I did not know.

What about a POD early in Napoleon's hold on power, like the bomb outside the theatre killing him as intended in December 1800?

What about the Gilbert Islands? Vostok is among its easterly Line Islands....

Romania seems likelier than Bulgaria IMO.