Recent content by Rex

I agree, certainly, though I'd say that the ability to put bodies in the field was doctrinal; it's not as though there were any major industrial transformations in France prior to the revolution. I do think we're a bit off the topic of why armies in antiquity were larger than medieval armies...

My intention was to note that small armies like the OP noted were a feature of doctrine, not to say that all armies of the period were small. As for the gentleman's agreements, that was more in reference to the reliance on professional soldiers and the shying away from TYW-style sectarian...

Part of it is exaggeration. Part is that Antiquity is characterized by large, centralized states and urbanization, while the Medieval era is characterized by numerous decentralized states run by nobles, and so states in Antiquity tended to be better at organizing armies. By the early Modern...

Partly it's numbers being inflated, but even accounting for that, armies in Antiquity were larger. Partly it's due to the backslide from an urbanized society to rural one during the fall of Rome, partly it's violence and plague dropping the population, partly it's a less efficient economic and...

Another issue is the collapse of the western Roman tax structure, as the primary taxpayers of the late Empire-the decurions-either sought ways to achieve tax exempt status or were taxed into poverty. This gutted the west's ability to raise funds and maintain armies, and caused the cities to...

Jeremy Belknap's History of New Hampshire (1792) is an interesting source for early New Hampshire.

Yuan Shikai is a big part of the problem. If he either falls out of favor or dies before he can overturn the Provisional Government, than you might see something resembling China post-Northern Expedition: not really united, but also not totally fractured, with the generals in the north ruling...

I'll be honest, I had to look up Sverdlov, but having read about him, this seems interesting. I presume that this wreck butterflies whichever demise you believe Sverdlov had OTL, which will positition him to sideline Stalin, possibly through an unhappy alliance with Trotsky. He's younger than...

If I remember correctly, I think the number is that only 13% of Americans wanted to exterminate the Japanese.

Large bills were used to transfer money between banks before money became weird electronic stuff. EDIT: The largest US dollar was $100,000 and featured Woodrow Wilson. It was used internally by the Federal Reserve.

Don't forget 5: vastly harsher Versailles. It's hard to start world wars when your largest country is Hesse-Kessel and there are permanent Allied military bases across Germany.

That seems a rather large change, with DDT as an insecticide being discovered 60 years sooner.

Well, he's suggesting a seperate monarchy, so King William and Parliament here can probably change the laws of succession as they see fit.

Best as I can tell, none of the three houses had a female offspring of marriageable age until the 1870-80's (Amelie of Orleans). She was 2 in 1867.

If Wessex is somehow prevented from fully conquering the Danelaw (sudden death of Edward the Elder?), then perhaps Northumbria will seek alliance, and later union, with the fledgling Kingdom of Scotland.