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  1. Washington died, America became a monarchy

    seems you thought it through more than I did! seems logical, knox being king. maybe i'll do a timeline of it. as i said, the revolutionaty war era isn't my speciality, so i guess i'll be asking you other members for quite a bit of advice!:D
  2. weapons with which to arm major armies

    wait a minute. pistols. which? p.s. i forgot to tell you, colt bought evans (http://www.leverguns.com/articles/blancard/evans.htm), mostly so that my favorite gun from the era could succeed.:)
  3. weapons with which to arm major armies

    hmm... how's this, the patterson plant burns down, colt doesn't die, is offered funding by texan gov't to bring entire operation to texas and sell exclusively to texas, and so on and so forth. (no nationalizing) by "believible caliber" i'm sure you mean compared to my .700 cal revolver rifle...
  4. Washington died, America became a monarchy

    wait a minute, a shoulda posted this in the last thread. sorry.:o true, no one did have Washington's stature. but, in a pinch, I'm sure Jefferson, Adams, or Franklin would do. Franklin and Adams, i can see refusing, as Washington did, in favor of a democracy, but maybe Jefferson might go for...
  5. weapons with which to arm major armies

    I have been thinking of (possibly) writing a book, and although i unfortunately can't tell you the timeline out of paranoia (:eek:), i can ask for advice on the weapons (right?), so here goes: 1841: samuel colt dies of a misfire testing a gun (before his Patterson plant can fail) 1842: the...
  6. Washington died, America became a monarchy

    As many know, George Washington (a distant relative of mine) was offered the position as king of America, but refused. What if he died in the war, and the job was offered to someone else, who accepted?:eek:
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