A French Prince holding London, Winchester, Canterbury, and Rochester. I think Louis did better than most would-be conquerors of England. He even got Alexander II of Scotland swearing allegiance to him.
22 warships and 108 converted merchant ships. Against 34 English warships
34 warships...
The key term is prolonged, lengthy in time. The entire Franco-Prussian War lasted for about 10 months (July, 1870-May, 1871). Not a good example to convince people that France and Germany will be trapped in a four-year long standstill.
Closely related yes, but not really friends. Family relations had not prevented previous European conflicts. For a few examples.
*War of the Oranges (1801). France and Spain vs. Portugal. Charles IV of Spain and Maria I of Portugal were 1st cousins.
*War of the Third Coalition (1803-1806)...
Actually they had the concept of what prolonged warfare would be like. The French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars combined has lasted for 23 years (1792-1815). The problem was that none of the recent wars (from their perspective) was nearly as lengthy. The Belle Époque had acclimated...
The Balkans already had their fill of violence for the 1910s and were undergoing significant changes.:
*First Balkan War (October, 1912 - May, 1913). Ottoman Empire vs. Balkan League (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia). Almost all Ottoman territories were captured by the Allies...
Well, that is a first for me. You would like the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1901-1976, terms 1940-1944, 1952-1959) to endure? Are you fan of American organized crime figures of the time?
"Batista established lasting relationships with organized crime, notably with American mobsters...
True. A Chinese state heavily influenced by the Southern Baptist Convention would be unique. Scary, but unique. "Hong developed a literalist understanding of the Bible and added a third testament of annotations to the Taiping's Bible. These developed a Oneness theology. He rejected the doctrine...
*The First Mexican Empire, under the House of Iturbide. I would basically like to see any timeline where Mexico gains a relatively stable form of government in the 19th century and Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876) doesn't rise to power.
*The Gallic Empire (260-274) under Postumus, the...
Why? The Battles of Khalkhin Gol (11 May-16 September, 1939) between the Soviets and the Japanese ended in a decisive Soviet victory. While the official Japanese reports on their own casualties spoke of "8,440 killed, 8,766 wounded", it is considered probable that their numbers were inaccurate...
If Canada is any indication, the Commonwealth's industrial capabilities were impressive. See: http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/history/secondwar/fact_sheets/material
*"Canadian industry produced more than 800,000 military transport vehicles, 50,000 tanks, 40,000 field, naval, and anti-aircraft...
But they are still involved in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). And Japan has already captured French Indochina (22-26 September, 1940). Are the United States of this timeline still cutting oil, iron, and steel exports to Japan by July, 1940? Are there still lingering tensions between...
Hmmm.... pay closer attention to what the nature of the German-Japanese alliance was. The initial Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) between the two powers mainly ensured that they would co-ordinate efforts against the Soviet Union. And both powers agreed to never sign political treaties with said...