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  1. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 104

    March – 1897 Twenty miles north of the Yangtze Estuary Like a steel predator stalking its prey, the USS Whitehead slid through the twilight-illuminated waters of the East China Sea’s, only the periscope potentially visible to the sharpest-eyed lookout. As wintered inexorably dragged into...

  2. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 103

    March, 1897 Nanjing “I…simply don’t know what to do, General Xu,” Shi Ping confessed to her host as a fire crackled in the background. “Governor Wu is keeping vital supplies, manpower…everything the army desperately needs… “…Miss Shi…” the middle-aged General interrupted through his stained...

  3. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 102

    February, 1897 Huangshan Mountains southeast of city of Chizhou, Anhou Province, Republic of China Newly promoted “Corporal” Hans Czinka huddled ever deeper into the muck lightly coating the rocky terrain of the Huangshan, a futile act should one of the ubiquitous shells plummeting downward...

  4. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 101

    February, 1897 Boston Bundled against the dismal February northern weather, President Adlai Stevenson entered the First Church of Boston, cap in hand. I’ve attended far too many of these services, he considered sadly. After a week of laying in state in Philadelphia, Richard Olney’s body was...

  5. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 100

    February, 1897 West of Okinawa (Columbian Protectorate) “Damn it!” Lieutenant Arthur MacArthur shouted up the ladder towards the Master Chief as the roiling sea battered the USS Whitehead back and forth. “Bernard! Git that towline cut NOW!!!” The commander of the Whitehead’s words were nearly...

  6. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 99

    January, 1897 Jigokudani, Central Honshu The young Nihonjin woman merely stared dumbly at the baffling sight below, shaking her heavily hooded head, “I…have no words…” Bound head to toe against the frigid winter weather in whatever scraps of cloth the petty band could find, it was difficult...

  7. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 98

    January, 1897 Philadelphia “…this is…quite disappointing…Ambassador Von Strove,” Secretary of State Olney managed to spit out between clenched teeth. “Naturally, should the Czar change his mind…” “You shall be the first to know, sir,” the Russian emissary mercifully inserted, already rising...

  8. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 97

    January, 1897 Guangzhou Witnessing the scowl upon the visage of the petite woman storming through President Sun’s offices, the army of adjutants and functionaries wisely opted not to challenge Shi Ping as she approached the door to Sun’s inner sanctum. To her surprise, the recently installed...

  9. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 96

    January, 1897 West of Nanjing “…Jesus!” Yelped Private Hans Czinka as a bullet cracked into a tree barely six inches from his head. Ducking behind the ravaged edifice, the soldier attempted to merge himself into the wood as the cacophony of combat proved almost deafening. “Third squad!”...

  10. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900

    Thanks for continuing to read!

  11. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900

    Much appreciated!

  12. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 95

    January, 1897 Sandouping Village, Hubei Province, Southern shore of Yangtze Prince Zaitian ducked back into the hastily dug trench as the screaming projectiles arced over the protective crest of the knobby peaks only to explode in midair upon encountering the barren branches of the normally...

  13. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 94

    January, 1897 Philadelphia Having granted an informal level of unofficial recognition to the appointed Ambassador of the new “Reino de las Indias Occidentales Espanolas”, President Adlai Stevenson repeated almost verbatim the words he’d already expressed to Ambassador Garcia’s counterparts...

  14. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 93

    January, 1897 East China Sea, twenty miles west of Okinawa Cutting through the cold waves of the East China Sea under the sputtering petrol engines of his ungainly craft, now mercifully released from the torpedo destroyer’s towline, the commander of the USS Whitehead pulled tugged his thick...

  15. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900

    Yea, I've never been good at maps. I'll take a look. Thanks.

  16. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900

    Always glad to have someone following. I needed a few months to recharge my batteries at the end of last year. I think the rifle technology is very similar to OTL (both China and the US use version of Mausers).

  17. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900

    Thanks for reading!

  18. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 92

    January, 1897 Five miles west of Puebla Ignoring the bullet whizzing past his temple (and the objections of his senior officers), the new commander of “2nd Army”, Major General Wesley Merritt, continued glaring through his binoculars towards the mountain passes meandering west towards the...

  19. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 91

    January, 1897 Leon, New Spain “…and,” Custis Lee murmured as he raised yet another toast to his successor, “I have no doubt that General Bliss shall lead our forces to glory…” Over the past hour, Lee’s “goodbye dinner” proved a somber scene as the junior officers of the now relieved commander...

  20. Arrogance and Empire - An Alternate 7 Years' War Novel - Part 11 - 1890-1900
    Threadmarks: Chapter 90

    January 1, 1897 (Hong’s Birthday, 10th day of the 12th month lunar calendar) Nanjing, Yangtze Still slightly hungover from the celebration of the “western” New Year the night before, 1st Company, 2nd Regiment, 5th Brigade only grudgingly trudged from their comparatively comfortable barracks...
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