And quite possibly a bigger England-screw as well, in terms of reducing the offshore areas to a neglected backwater taking hind-teat to ambition or even basic defense on the continent.
ETA: For that matter, the 'defrancification' of the Angevin ruling classes (to the degree that it even got...
You are aware that the pre-revolutionary French Kingdom included places like this? I am certain the death toll on the various Sugar Islands topped 150 per day, so the concern of how much worse the Reign of Terror was might be mistaken for who was dying.
Ongoing anti=Union violence would be the sort of thing that accelerates meaningful enforcement of Amendments XIII-XV (the re-imposition of Jim Crow was considerably bloodier than the Watts Riots, let alone '92). The blacks of the low country and the hillbillies of the uplands becoming the...
IIRC two of these cases involved a distant metropole enforcing their dictates and the third was the unpopular edict of a monarchy which got them overthrown. The CSA is not in the same boat as either and unless/until DC or London has them by the economic short hairs they never will be.
Also...
On the Ottoman Realm: To what degree do they manage to maintain use of the pre-Ataturk script/language in popular/everyday usage? It is improbable that the languages do not diverge but trade/communication will lead to some bleed-over.
Come to think of it, the same question can be asked about...
One does wonder how many regard Yiddish speakers as "cheating" when they learn German. I mean once one gets the script down....
OTOH, the Eastern Slavic languages are not that divergent either.....
This. Keeping the Greek Orthodox upper clergy on the side of the Sultanate is, if not the only way to end this mess without depopulating the Morea, certainly makes things orders of magnitude easier.
I will push my luck and swing back to Haiti. François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier was elected president in 1957 in a middling-corrupt election on a populist platform. He started a perhaps justifiably paranoid autocrat with little trust of the army or the mulatto socio-economic elite. Then a heart...
wut?
an AH where the Haitian Revolution is dodged by a government in Paris supple enough to get Sonthonax and Louverture operating a coalition government of the Saint-Domingue Department rather than invading to reinstate slavery with the resultant blowback is worth contemplating even if a...