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True but it's one thing to make a promise in a safe place prior to staging a coup and another to keep it when the man who you just murdered's greatest ally was in your midst witnessing your murder. It'd be likely people wouldn't think rationally in that moment and they'd lash out in response...

IIRC the story is that he's trying to warn Ceaser so if he got there before the stabbing started he might get Ceaser to get out of the room. From there it's likely the plotters would lose heart and turn on each other or choose suicide. Ceaser was notorious for forgiving his enemies so a lot of...

Holy hell Bobby. Did the Kennedys not have books or TV in their house?

So does this mean no MCR? Well that's going to alter pop culture in America for the next 10 years.

I always found the Crisis of the 3rd Century to be a fascinating period of time. So many things could have changed in our world if the Empire broke then. The very concept of how to form governments and what the society should look like would have been totally different, not to mention things...

It is interesting to see a world where Robespierre had more time to ensure that his war aims were followed through. It always felt like a big issue with the tail end of the Republic after the Thermidorian Reaction was that they sort of lost sight of what they actually wanted out of the war. They...

In truth, you don't need a French Navy on par with the Royal Navy to cross in this era. This was before radios, before radar, and before engines. All you truly need is to clear part of the channel of the defensive force for a day and you could get a huge army across and at that point the war is...

The most interesting thing is how the average German will think about Hitler and the Nazis. ITTL it seems like the general idea is that it was a group of overconfident nationalists who had few positive national policies but were disasters in conducting the war or understanding the actual...

Here's one I've thought about before What if Stephine Brown Stayed as Robin? So in our timeline the whole Steph as Robin thing was largely a stunt but if they stuck with it there'd be a few interesting changes. 1) The whole Tim's dad gets murdered and Tim gets adopted would never happen...

Moving on from comics, one thing I do wonder about is several of the key post-WW1 writers and how different their outputs would be. For instance, JRR Tolkin is going to be writing a story about the dangers of war, the brutality of conflict and the need for a peaceful and rural existence in a...

I'd assume it's in the British Invasion phase at this point. The Jacobins are the ones who freed the slaves and pushed for racial equality so it is unlikely they have any interest in forcing the Haitians to return to their bondage. So once the war ends Haiti would just be considered a part of...

Napoleon sort of regretted his whole invasion as a waste of men and money. Haiti at this point is basically reset to year zero due to the constant invasions, rebellions, and counter-rebellions. At most he likely tries to talk the leadership at the time, I'm not actually fully sure who that would...

This is I think the only TL I've ever seen where Napoleon decided he couldn't win in the end and just agreed to a workable peace treaty. Usually, he either wins or fights to the bitter end, but it feels more historical that he'd agree to a peace deal. He only dug in when he thought he could pull...

What might happen is that Danton leads a "proto-Reaction" in the Convention. No actual reversals on policy up to that point, but he'd put an end to the outright destruction of the church pushing instead for a more stable civic church solution and he'd wind down the terror. Basically, the death...

Honestly, I don't think Napoleon gets much of his military career off the ground. By this point, his only major contribution to the war is in Toulon and I'm not even sure if that would go as it did IOTL. Napoleon and his brother might end up doing what they originally planned, returning home and...