It's alive! Alive!! MUA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!
Seriously, though, really glad to see this back. I've lost count of how many times I've reread this story. (Rubs hands) Now, how do we think President Kearny is going to react to the Franco-Prussian War?
Ah, but Canada, Australia, and New Zealand didn't start from a blank slate; they started from English colonies (and French, in the case of Canada). It's not entirely coincidental that all three of them still have the British monarch as their head of state, even if all the actual governing is...
Except that, arguably, the Confederates ceased to be citizens when their states passed the ordinances of secession. And whether that was legal or not is not a question of law anyone's going to want brought up in court when it's already been settled on the battlefield.
Not sure Sherman would go quite that far. Sheridan, on the other hand . . .
A most excellent chapter, Red. Strange to see no mention of the heroes of Union Mills, but an excellent chapter.
As far as Latin America goes, I'm hoping Brazil does better than OTL. Dom Pedro II seems genuinely impressive, both as a monarch and as a man, up until he throws in the towel because he doesn't have a male heir and he doesn't think his daughter is up for it. Any chance the POD affects that? Or...
I'mma just leave this here about the problems with the Red Wedding in GOT, and why the episodes it was based on didn't happen until 1440 (the Black Dinner) and 1692 (the Glencoe Massacre). The tl;dr version is as follows: Primus, neither of them took place at a wedding, because desecrating one...
He's also the guy who (reportedly, at least) responded to the first threat of secession with "John Calhoun, if South Carolina secedes from the Union, I will secede your head from your neck."
HMS Vanguard: Don't bother building it, or working on either of the Lions for that matter. You've already got the KGVs and the modernized QEs for your battle line; what you need are more CVs to give them air cover (especially in the Med and the North Sea), over-the-horizon scouting, and...
As far as potential Generals-in-Chief go, the obvious candidate is Reynolds (assuming he survives the war in a fit condition to serve), what with him being the victor of Union Mills and all. After Reynolds, the other two main candidates at this point are Grant (for Vicksburg) and Thomas (for...
Muslims who had served in the military (and possibly the civil service) and displayed an appropriate degree of assimilation, maybe; there's the precedent set by the Senegalese tirailleurs. Otherwise, I doubt it.