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I think that was quite a bit before, French involvement in Florida pretty much ended after the Spanish burned Fort Caroline in 1565. After that it seems as if the expelled Huguenots just went to the colonies of other Protestant nations, i.e. New Amsterdam or Dutch South Africa. Great update...

Yeah that was a typo, meant to say pre-1910. Many people will probably disagree with me, but I agree with you. The Empire at this point is just too rotten to be saved by a victory that everyone expected anyway. And with all the pent up resentment in Russia the Empire won't survive for long...

Well it's only intermediary meaning that it's smaller than a rifle cartridge. It's less of a distinction now because most modern armies use primarily assault rifles. But for the purposes of the thread I think we should consider it an assault rifle if it can go full automatic and has a smaller...

But if you could get a tough enough satellite it would be a Hell of a lot cheaper to just shoot it.

D-Day fails and Italy and Spain are the only non-communist mainland European nations. Reds in the Old City is the battle-cry used by Catholics in the United States to try and arrange more aid to the fledgling republic. Now, Now Mr. Hitler

"This is one man taking a damn big Step" (perhaps not fair but I recall a rather lengthy thought in The Right Stuff about how Girssom was terrible with words.) Molkte doesn't say no to the Kaiser's demands to change the mobilization tables to go East. German troops start heading into Russian...

They Know What's Best A TL in which Hamiclar wins the battle of Metaurus and is able to link up with Hannibal in Italy. The combined Carthaginian force forces Rome to give back all territories taken in the first Punic War and grant independence to the southern Italian (ethnically Greek)...

V “Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen” Excerpt from “The Greatest Game: The Anglo-Russian War” by E. Adams, Oxford, 1995 Persia was a mess in 1907. It had recently adopted a new constitution, it was poor, and worst of all, it was being invaded by the Russian...

in 1587 Sir Francis Drake led a small English squadron in a preemptive strike on the Spanish Fleet at Cadiz. The raid was hugely successful and delayed the Spanish Armada for over a year, as well as destroying most of the supplies that were going to be used and causing the Armada to be...

Tunguska event hits Paris. Seeing the suffering caused and with France virtually out of the game as a great power the other European's spend a great deal aiding the French rebuild, a European community is formed, and the world lives on in relative peace for quite a while longer than IOTL...

It's not possible after the start of the war, barring a meteor strike on Scapa Flow. As long as we're throwing out illogical invasions of England. How about this where the only POD is America not entering the war...

Really? Do you have a source for this, not to be confrontational or anything but everyone else (and indeed I have heard) that the general idea was annexation of the city.

Let's assume for purpose of argument that Russia advances to, and takes, Constantinople in the 1877-78 war. Leaving aside the other consequences of this massive victory let's assume that Russia takes the city in the peace. The one thing that I have always wondered about how such a thing would be...

Is it still possible for Small-German unification to occur in 1866 though? Or does Prussia need more time to consolidate their power.

So better performance in 1866 could lead to a Großdeutschland later? What about a Small-Germany after a Prussian victory in 1866 with Austria being added later?

I've heard it said before that the second most likely time for German unification would be the Austro-Prussian war, and that if that occurred it would be possible for them to shoehorn Austria into a Großdeutschland scenario. To me this seems unlikely, as far as I understand the events it...

IV “For sail they cannot; and instead thereof/ One makes his vessel new” Excerpt from “1905: The Year of Three Revolutions” by C. Hunter, Yale, 1979 After the end of the Russo-Japanese war both of those countries were rocked by revolutions, neither was successful. In Japan the...

The US was content with a German dominated Europe, they were just getting super pissed about submarine warfare (understandable) and Zimmerman was just the spark. If the Germans had not gotten the American's angry intervention was not likely at all, it is naive to think that if two superpowers...

Later WW1: Airplanes aren't as developed, German fleet is bigger so more surface engagements involving dreadnoughts. Naval planners still hang on the value of the battleship.

IMO the one they put on the Virginia/Merrimack looked pretty secondary, it looked extremely tacked on.