No offence but Jim Jordan, ie he is credibly known since about 2015 to have been involved in similar ‘shenanigans’ and not only hasn’t been driven from office but is rather more powerful than before. Worse, no one seems to talk about it or care.
Perhaps I’ve just become cynical at events 15...
Exactly. If there are 30,000 manumitted black girls or even ex-slaves in a state instead of 300 then opinions will harden and you will end up with new or stronger anti-free-black and anti-miscegenation laws.
My recollection is that his cancer management was botched. He reported throat soreness, the German doctors thought it might be cancerous (though treatment would render him mute if found), he visited an English specialist who denied it was cancer at all. He got worse. After a year or more of...
I’m not sure the U.S. would intervene, despite the fact that Texas was the talk of the South as a new land, Manifest Destiny, that the States claimed Texas or parts thereof until Adams-Onis in 1819, or that it was an Election Year. Foremost in my view is that hundreds of Americans were executed...
Just a nitpick for if / when you redo this tale or publish - aristocratic PMs were / are referred to generally by their title, in this case Lord Rosebery. I had to check if this was a change to history as I don’t recall anyone ever referred to him as Mr Primrose. It’s also a thing that tends to...
Loathe as I am to derail further, I think there’s an aspect that has not been noted. As of 1504 the only queen had not really reigned. The interregnum of the 1140s was resolved by leaving Stephen on the throne and skipping Matilda by making Henry II his heir. That was why Henry VIII was adamant...
Given the name ‘Stern Raid’ I’m thinking Jews, specifically Irgun. On the basis that they were doing terrorism at the time (albeit only in Palestine as far as I can recall), one of their groups was the ‘Stern Gang’, and they were obtaining mainly communist weapons. Possible, given the mindset of...
Supposedly increased repression anywhere communism has a hold (the claim that the Soviets exercised a Veto on Siri). No rapprochement via liberation theology. A conservative church that either breaks apart under modern changes in the 1970s or, more likely, a more tribal Catholicism in the West...
Outside the time limitations, but Saudi Arabia :winkytongue: Rome? (Would it be Rema if his brother won out?) Assyria? (Ashur / -banipal) Achaemenid Persia (presumably from an ancestor named Achaemenus) Sassanid Persia (first ruled by Sasan) Judah. Gupta Empire. China (Qin Shi Huang Ti)
While I have no numbers I’d think tens of thousands, though many of those would be killed on the field of battle - surrenders not taken. I’m thinking primarily of the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745 and the Irish risings of (1795? and) 1798. Those prisoners taken were enslaved or executed...
I think it more likely that the Grand Duchesses are turned over to the Soviets by the Americans and shot as ‘traitors to the motherland’, war criminals and nazis, just like any number of the White exiles who were hunted down in the 20s and 30s by the NKVD, found themselves in France under German...
If they’re fishermen going to the mid-oceanic fishing grounds (it is thought that long before Cabot (up to 70 or more years) the Basques were fishing off Newfoundland and possibly drying their fish over winter and keeping it secret) then it reduces the likelihood of being in the south of New...
I’m more interested in why George Thomas, the “Rock of Chckamauga” decides to go with his state and join the CSA, acceding to his family’s pleas.
I suspect his presence at Marye’s Heights somehow works to hold the Yankees long enough to somehow doom the AoP.
Someone who was so determined as...
Nikola Šubić Zrinski (Zrinyi Miklos) becomes even more a hero to Christendom ;-) with possibly minor changes to ethnic iconography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (insofar as it either becomes a ‘glorious tragedy of Croat fighting Croat in the service of foreigners’ or used as a...
Except that the Japanese Were trying to surrender (or at least discuss terms) through the soviets - the soviets as officially neutral. Because the japanese were weak and making the western allies happy and in their debt by attacking Japan would advance multiple soviet objectives, the soviets...