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  1. WI Alexander Hamilton Dies at the Battle of Yorktown?

    What would be the impact on American history if Alexander Hamilton had been killed while storming the British redoubt at Yorktown in October of 1781?

  2. WI British blockade of Germany in First World War had not included food?

    What if the British blockade of Germany during the First World War had not counted foodstuffs as contraband of war?

  3. Was the Roman Republic Doomed by the 1st Century BC?

    The historiography of ancient Rome is divided on the question of whether the Roman Republic was doomed by the 1st Century BC. Some maintain that the governmental structure that had initially evolved to govern a city-state was simply too cumbersome and inappropriate to the needs of what had...

  4. Assuming No European Contact, What is the Fate of the Aztecs?

    Assuming that no European contact takes place, what will be the fate of the Aztec Empire? Does it collapse, perhaps due to internal rebellion? Does it eventually get destroyed by a more powerful foe? Or does it continue its rise and become an event more powerful state? Discuss.

  5. Best Case Scenario for Confederate during Hood's 1864 Invasion of Tennessee?

    With a POD no earlier than November 20 (the day the Army of Tennessee crossed the Tennessee River), what is the best case scenario for the Confederates in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign? IOTL, they came close to scoring a major victory at Spring Hill, that might have snuffed out 20,000 Union...

  6. Frankish Army Organization/Structure?

    Does anyone have any information, or could point me to proper sources, detailing how was the Frankish army in the 8th Century organized? What were its units called and how large were they? What were its officers called? That sort of thing. Thanks!

  7. WI Jean-Baptiste Kleber Avoids Assassination

    What if the assassin who killed Jean-Baptiste Kleber had been caught before he could stab the general and Kleber had survived? What sort of impact might this have had on the French expedition to Egypt or the larger history of the Napoleonic era?

  8. What Would Have Been the Best British Strategy in the Revolutionary War?

    Like it says on the tin. Had you been advising the British on the best way to defeat the American Revolution, what would your advice have been?

  9. Who Had the Better Generals, the Union or the Confederacy?

    One of the long-running "facts" taught in the history of the American Civil War is that the Confederacy, on average, had better generals than did the Union. This stems largely from the Lost Cause school of Civil War historiography, with Southerners wanting to see their generals as knights in...

  10. Charles Lee at the Battle of Monmouth

    Charles Lee's behavior at the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War has long been the subject of controversy. George Washington accused him of cowardly retreating when he should have attacked and relieved him of command. This was the end of a long-running dispute between the two men...

  11. Who Is Most To Blame For the Confederate Loss At Gettysburg? (Lost Cause Version)

    Yes, as Pickett said, "[T]he Yankees had something to do it." And Lee was a decent enough man to say, "It is all my fault." But let's have some fun with the debate that divided the Lost Cause South in the years after the Civil War, and killed untold thousands of trees as the former generals...

  12. DBWI: WI Bernard Bee as Killed at the Battle of Manassas?

    Today, Bernard Bee is rightly regarded as the greatest military genius in the history of the world. However, he was very nearly killed by a Union bullet during the Battle of Manassas. It actually cut through the left side of his torso, causing a painful but ultimately non-life threatening wound...

  13. WI Major Confederate Victory In Kentucky, October 1862?

    Suppose that, for whatever reason (maybe pure dumb luck, or perhaps Polk falls off his horse, hits his head, and dies) the Confederate army under Braxton Bragg wins a decisive victory against the Union army under Don Carlos Buell when it invades Kentucky in the fall of 1862. By "major", assume a...

  14. WI Jefferson Davis and Joseph Johnston Had Gotten Along?

    Jefferson Davis and Joseph Johnston had known one another for decades before the Civil War, though stories that their personal rivalry went back to their West Point days seem likely to be retrospective additions. The real source of their wartime feud lay in the passage of a law by the...

  15. Would Lincoln Have Guaranteed Suffrage to Freed Slaves?

    Had he not been assassinated, would Abraham Lincoln have done whatever would have been necessary to ensure that freed slaves in the South would have had the right to vote?

  16. Could Augustus Have Restored the Republic?

    Suppose that, after securing absolute power and bringing stability back to Rome, Augustus had been determined to restore the Republic rather than continue the autocratic government that had emerged under his rule? Could he have done so, or would any such effort be doomed to simply bring back the...

  17. How Much Did British and American Generals Know About Ultra?

    Reading through Second World War literature, one finds confirmation that the higher ranking Allied commanders were "privy to the Ultra secret" or words to that effect. This seems to include Army-level commanders like Patton and Simpson as well as Eisenhower and Montgomery. But how much did they...

  18. German Anti-Nazi Resistance Without "Unconditional Surrender" Demand?

    If the Allies had not publicly demanded the "unconditional surrender" of Germany, but merely the removal of the Nazi Party and its leadership (i.e. similar to the declaration of the coalition against Napoleon in 1815), how would this have affected the German anti-Nazi resistance?

  19. What Good Would the French Fleet Have Done the Germans in 1942?

    Much is made of the scuttling of the Vichy French fleet at Toulon in the aftermath of the Allied invasion of North Africa and the German occupation of southern France. But what good would it really have done the Germans if they had captured the ships? Where would they have gotten crews to man...

  20. Could Stalin Have Just Held Back on the Eastern Front After 1943?

    On this board, we've often talked out the possibility of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union making a separate peace with one another. One suggestion I have seen is Hitler deciding he can't win in Russia after Stalingrad or Kursk. This to me is essentially ASB, given Hitler's personality. The war...
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