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  1. Papin's Paddleboat

    1704: Denis Papin has a very public falling out with Leibniz (POD) 1707: Papin returns to London from Germany and present papers to the Royal Society on his new steam engine and describes the steam boat experiments he conducted in Kassel in 1704 through 1707. In TTL he is not snubbed by the...

  2. General Jefferson Davis (1847)

    POD: Davis' wife dies in 1847. Davis stays in the military and remains healthy. Jefferson Davis seemed destined for military leadership. On his first day of battle in the Mexican American War Davis single handedly captured twenty enemy soldiers. A few months later he lead a small force which...

  3. Closer To Shore

    1798 French fleet in Egypt anchors just a little bit closer to land than they did in OTL > Brit Thomas Foley is not able to sail on the landward side of the French > Nelson does not have lopsided victory in the Battle of the Nile > Napoleon has much more success in Egypt - at least for...

  4. One Dead Indian

    May 28, 1754 Tanacharison, the Half-King, hated all French. The French had taken him away from his Catawba tribe and held him prisoner. The French had intruded into western lands and built forts. They had to be stopped. They had to die. He had killed many Frenchmen and now he guided...

  5. Honor by Sword Alone

    In 1643 Henri de la Tour was on the verge of great things. He was on Cardinal Richelieu's short list to become Marshal of Italy. But Henri took a break to attend the opera L'incoronazion di Poppea and unfortunately he ended up exchanging insults with an Italian gentleman also in attendance...

  6. What if Henry the Impotent wasn't Impotent?

    What if Henry IV of Castile (Henry the Impotent) fathered a son with his first wife Blanca of Navarre? I can figure out the broad strokes, but not the details. Here are my first guesses: - Isabella would not get to be queen. - Spain's unification postponed. - The Reconquista would be slowed...

  7. WI US President term is only 3 years long.

    Clipped from a letter from Alexander Hamilton To Timothy Pickering dated September 16th 1803: "In the plan of a Constitution, which I drew up while the convention was sitting, and which I communicated to Mr Madison about the close of it, perhaps a day or two after, the office of President has...

  8. What if horses were ponies

    What if horses were small? Genetically they could not be bred to be large enough to bear a full grown man. They cold still be domesticated; they could still be harnessed; they could still pull wagons, plows, or chariots – but you could not ride them. What are the consequences?

  9. The Mighty Micmac

    Saga of Erik the Red: "Leif put out to sea and was long voyaging, and he made landfall where he had never before expected to find land; there was self-sown wheat there, and vines; there were trees of the kind called Maple - and all of these they brought some tokens; some timbers so large that...

  10. Help me pick a TL

    I have several old ideas which I tried to work into timelines without much success. I'm thinking of doing research and reworking one of them into something much more satisfying, but I want to have an audience to my efforts. So my question for you all is: which one of these timelines do you...

  11. General Butler Chinese Warlord

    In 1928, After 30 years of stellar service in the US Marines, General Smedley Butler was in China for a second time (first time was during the Boxer Rebellion). His father had recently died and Butler seriously considered retiring from the Marines and living in China. His ability to bring...

  12. Looking for a Hamilton TL

    I did a search for Alexander Hamilton time-lines but everything seems to focus on his duel with Burr or even later (assuming he survives). It seems to me that most of the really interesting possibilities come much earlier. Has anyone done an early Hamilton-gains-power TL? Here is some...

  13. Separated at birth

    Even before America existed as a country it was known that slavery would be a divisive issue. The founding fathers "solved" this by simply not talking about it. They left really solving the problem to future generations. When Jefferson first drafted the Declaration of Independence it...

  14. A Presidency Derailed

    In the Democratic convention of 1852 a dark horse candidate named Franklin Pierce was nominated. He went on to easily win the presidency. Most people don't know anything about President Pierce, but historians rank him as the absolute worst American president of all time. Many think that his...

  15. Huguenots in New France

    Cardinal Richlieu officially forbid the Huguenots from colonizing in New France. But given that Richlieu would often put political interests above religious interests, that he was personally interested in seeing New France be a success, that he knew more French men were desperately needed in the...

  16. The Younger Dryas Impact Event

    There is interesting new evidence for the Younger Dryas Event of 10,900 B.C. It looks like a comet exploded in the atmosphere above the ice sheets covering the Great Lakes region. This caused mass extinction of North American megafauna, the end of the Clovus people, and global climate change...

  17. Aztec Bows

    Aztecs bows were wimpy. They were at most 5' tall and were not mentioned much in the descriptions of battles. The Aztecs favored the use of javelins and the atlatl. Compare this to the bows used against Cabeza de Vaca and his companions in 1529 up in western Florida: "Spanish crossbows...

  18. Dutch take Jamestown in 1673

    From "1676 The END of American Independence" by Stephen Saunders Webb: Berkeley, the Governor in Virginia, lead a very corrupt local government which laid excessive taxes on the people (which were pocketed). He also refused to allow the people to organize themselves against Indians because...

  19. Jews Discover America

    Early on Columbus' voyage he encountered another ship which was also heading westward. It had a Jewish crew. In 1508 some Spanish preachers in the New World wrote back home to complain that the local tribes had already been influenced by Jewish and Muslim thoughts. I don't know is this stuff...

  20. Men On A Wreck

    Hi, I’m new to these boards. Can I play? Here is the start of another Norse in North America timeline, but it is a little different from others I’ve seen on the web. Comments, input, criticisms, insults and prase are all welcome. ______ From the saga of Eric the Red: "Leif puts out to sea and...
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