Recent content by Anticlimacus

Bolivar was part of the creole-spanish elite, he dismissed the amerindians that, in fact, fought for the royalist forces.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_expedition_(1541). It was in the XVI century but it shows how climate can disrupt completely a military operation.

I am not talking about "italian" armies, but of Spanish ones: Cerignola, Garigliano, Bicocca, Pavía... * * * * * * * * My oppinion: 1480-1505 Ottoman invassion after Otranto attack: ottoman fleet is not that powerful against italian navies, specially Venice that would look that move as a...

All of you seem to forget that Naples after 1504 is a Spanish possession, any ottoman invasion force would have to take them down. Given OTL precedent of the siege of HerzegNovi/Castelnuovo and the losses they suffered to take an isolated fortification they could attack by land, I think you need...

In Spain, you have made zombi areas the most depopulated areas (Soria, the Monegros dessert in Zaragoza)...

Just because of a play by Hochhuth and withouth evidences?

Kingdom of Ribagorza (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Ribagorza) Kingdom of Reiyo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobastro)

Do not let a good prejudice to spoil you a good story!

The problem was that the artillery of the era was quite innefective against ships. When the Spanish fleet kept the formation the English ships only managed to sink one ship and capture another that broke the formation. The English ships were so superior to Spanish ones that when the English...

Out of the question. The queen would be offered conversion or prison with a catholic regent being appointed, catholicism would be the official religion, but no mass conversion could be intended at this point and the Spanish crown knew it. You would see several preaching orders spreading in...

But Philip II would not allow that the queen would be killed, he felt "something" for her (read almost any Philip II biography) and he would never order her to be killed. He would probably be happy with a formal conversion back to catholicism.

... and risk an open war in the peninsula? They would reach an agreement, there would be an alt-Tordesillas treaty.

I agree with Sanderford comment. The plans for the Armada were just to end the support to the Dutch rebels, end privateer activities and grant the freedom of cult to catholics. As a bonus they would force the conversion of Elizabeth in exchange for letting her keep the throne. In order to...

Argentina and Uruguay had them.

If the Armada has succeeded and England had been defeated, the conditions would have been probably: * end support to Dutch rebels and support Spanish forces instead, * end persecution of catholic population, * force abdication of Elizabeth and put a catholic king/queen instead, * cession of...