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How does Slovakia(?) own the Congo if it's landlocked and has no access?

Why is Liberia free and independent? The americans wouldn't have been free to found an independent psuedo-colony to settle freed slaves, it would just get swallowed up by the Anglo-French Empire.....

Henry V survives long enough to take the French throne from King Charles of France, and the English court moves to France, so this is essentially the French Empire, not the British. As a feared land as well as Sea power, Spain, and Holland do not dare to intervene during the american war of...

Not likely, the Scots own England's candy ass. And the British Royals are more interested in spending time at Balmoral in Scotland than they are at Buckingham Palace........

I can see the americans being really pleased at that, fighting and dying to return British imperial possesions to the rule of her Britannic majesty...... :D From what a Harrier pilot said in one documentry, the Argentine pilots were badly briefed. They were told to avoid engaging the harriers...

I think Australia offered to lend some destroyers when the Sheffield was sunk as well......

I think Australia, Canada and the US all offered to lend Britain ships to replace those lost to the Argentinians, the latter a fully-fledged aircraft carrier. Would they have taken up the offer and tried again? Would the defeat of a democratic country that had had it's territory seized...

Apparently, the loss of any one of the British carriers would have forced the British into a humilating retreat from re-taking the Falklands by force. What would have happened then? According to recently released audio tapes, Ronald Reagan feared that the British would nuke Buenos Aires if they...

It is said that Hitler himself didn't envisage having to fight a major war in the west until 1946, during which time he would have had tigers and maybe panthers and king tigers in large numbers, the Me-262, 4-engined bombers, possibly all of the V-Weapons, a larger and more capable surface fleet...

From what I've read, throughout most of the 19th century it was the Royal Navy that enforced the Monroe Doctrine anyway, because the British saw it was to their advantage to stop other European nations from colonising the americas. Maybe with a British/CS victory, there would have been a...

HMS Prince of Wales? I have heard of Harry Harrison's books. I haven't read them though. What ludicrously implausible scenarios does he conjure up?

OK, assuming the Union provokes Palmerston into declaring war (and by all accounts he was all for it on several occasions). It would give the south the desperately needed supplies to continue the Confederate war effort, meanwhile, many Union troops have to be diverted to guard against the threat...

Why on earth would the confederates attack their newfound allies when the British compells the Union to fight a two-front war, and unltimately, forces the US to recognise confederate independence?

After a string of victories encourages Lord Palmerston and Napoleon III of France to recognise the Independence of the CSA, the British declare war on the Union in order to break the blockade and free the southern cotton trade essential for England's booming cotton industry, what happens next?

What about the devolopment of tank warfare (which was more advanced than the clumsy German panzerwagens) and allied air superiority in 1917? Germany was starved of almost everything, food, raw materials etc. Thanks to the blockade. All the Allies had to do was sit tight and wait for the Germans...