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One problem is that the Patriots only felt free to revolt against Britain because they didn't have the threat of French Canada in the north, Would they make the turn to invite a (shudder) Catholic power back in?

It's traditionally mostly confined to the mountain US, Salt Lake/Snake R. area, which in this world is part of a British/Commonwealth country, New Albion, stretching from Alaska to northern California- basically the U.S and Canada rotated 90 degrees. It reaches down to Mexico, which occupies...

My New Albion TL has a religion formed when the Americans take Canada in the American Revolution, and the white Loyalists, their Mohawk allies, and black slaves who were promised freedom for fighting for the British, had to flee west. They eventually founded a race-mixing religion and settled...

Jenkins- Winston Churchill: History of the English-Speaking People. The then Prime Minister, Horace Walpole, opposed the war but was swept along by war fever, led by a group of fire-brands calling themselves the Patriots, including William Pitt (the Elder- he was younger at the time)...

Douglas got 31.7 of the California vote, and 28% of the Oregon vote. Thus, the anti-slavery pro-Union vote in both California and Oregon was 64%

Could any variation of the Kra canal been built pre-1900?

Nice to see a somewhat more Romanised Western Empire that isn't just "suppose the Western Empire holds off the barbarians?"

My New Albion TL has a British Commonwealth country (equivalent of Canada) in the Pacific North-west (Alaska to northern California) and the United States of North America taking in the eastern US and Canada (USA expy), border at the continental divide, with the Kingdom of Mexico (Spanish...

A large part of the sympathy for the Boers came from Britain imposing rule on Europeans, i.e. white people. You would never get that kind of support internally or externally for a revolt by the 'fuzzy-wuzzies' in India or other non-white area.

A very good essay on how scurvy, totally defeated by the Royal Navy by the early 1800s, made a comeback at the turn of the century ., especially among polar explorers (like Scott), due to mistaken "modern" (at the time) science, combined with Imperial economics...

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China abolished slavery for the vast majority of its population over much of its history, but always had a few e.g. rebels and conquered people were sometimes enslaved . Some emperors tried to abolish it completely, but it usually came back under their successors.

A, B, C and F were carried out by various irregular outfits, without much success. D is pretty useless; it would be immediately shut down (by, among other things, reprisals against the local civilians). E- I think Southern sympathizers already knew which direction to head if they wanted to...

Would Louverture have confined his ambitions to Hispaniola, or would he have taken further steps in the Caribbean? If so, would Napoleon give him the okay or try to restrain him?

This is insane. I lived in China in the mid 1980s; you couldn't turn on the TV without being blasted by movies featuring warlords and Japanese puppet governments

I grew up in Vancouver B.C. where box lacrosse (played in a de-iced hockey rink) was very popular and had the reputation of being an extremely rough sport, rougher even than ice hockey.

You'd probably have more early penetration of the north and west due to increased competition. Other than that, not much. Now I have to go; I'm having a new couch being delivered by the NWC department store.

Samuel Johnson on the recent spread of tea-drinking in Britain: “To what can we ascribe the numerous complaints which prevail? How many sweet creatures of your sex languish with a weak digestion, low spirits, lassitudes, melancholy, and twenty disorders, which, in spite of the faculty, have yet...

Thanks! Hadn't thought of the Japan issue. Still,. don't see Americans allowing Japan to get a foothold in North America.

I don't visit this forum often- mostly in pre-1900. Are there any threads where Russia keeps Alaska, and an exile gov't - Czarist, White, republican, or social democratic- sets up in Alaska? (I live in Taiwan, so I'm interested in parallels/)