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Unless they took same ammunition, how would you adapt ammunition hoists ? :-( Would have been hard enough to dismount for 'field' use...

Is this analogous to the Classic ST:TOS time-travel episode "City on Edge of Forever' ? IIRC, OTL USA really was leaning towards neutral-ish isolation plus strong German sympathies and a serious loathing for the 'Imperial Brits'. Without 'Lend-Lease', without USN patrolling Western Atlantic...

Upside, given even an hour's warning, ships that cannot leave their moorings have time to close water-tight doors, man AAA, prepare 'damage control' rather than react 'ad-hoc'. Downside, as stated above, nimble ships that *do* leave their moorings may be sunk in the channel or deeper water...

Sadly, for most of recorded history, Liverpool was but a fishing hamlet up a muddy tidal creek off the Mersey. In fact, it was so insignificant that the Vikings named Litherland and Otterspool to either side, raided Garston, gave Liverpool a miss. Local population centre was 'Walton on the...

Little builders vans scooting around Liverpool during the Blitz: 'Hitler & Fils'...

If the 'Central Powers' won, would France & UK even have navies beyond cute coast-guard cutters ?? Would surrender / armistice conditions have seen the RN scuttled en-masse at Scapa Flow, with the exception of eg Med & Far East ships that flee to Australia, along with Dutch, French etc ??

Came late to this fascinating ATL, but Turkish neutrality has 'butterflied' the dire Dardanelles Campaign and 'Ghastly Gallipoli' unto a 'fevre dream'. Along with its hard-learned lessons about 'combined forces' etc... IIRC, this also butterflies away some remarkable work by stealthy RN subs in...

"150cm AAA? " Yikes. Even the Petard spigot-mortar was only 290 mm... ;-)

Will the Kennedy clan have the wit not to jump in with both left feet ?? == Disclaimer: One side of my family hails from Baltray area, on the North coast of River Boyne estuary down-stream from Drogheda. Been a long, long time, but I still remember being awed by Newgrange...

Mexicala ?

I'm reminded that tanks / self-propelled guns & assaults / AFVs with overlapped road-wheels gave a better ride, but were totally loathed by their maintenance teams. The suspensions filled up with debris and dirt, and accessing an inner wheel usually required removal of at least two outers...

"Before the last ice age" the sea levels were higher than they are today. Yes, but each advance of the ice lowered sea levels, each thaw raised them. Over and over. Such 'gardening' may erase a LOT of potential evidence. I'm reminded of eg Grand Canyon's 'Great Unconformity' from when massive...

@F: "Graham Hancock is ummmmm. Not an Archaeologist. And is full of hokum." Agreed. His work is generally well researched, but the extrapolations and conclusions are often wonky unto hilarious. Due care, please !! Much potential evidence has been submerged by post-glacial sea-level rise / delta...

@C: IIRC, Bronze Age civilisations could work iron where they could find it on the surface) The Pharaonic Egyptians were restricted to meteoric iron, per the remarkable blade found in eg Tut's tomb... Snag is extensive mining usually leaves traces. The old, artisanal copper diggings in eg the...

When Australia had a competition for a new 'Anthem' and, some-how, some-how, OTL's rather prim effort beat the wondrous 'We Are One'... I liked that inspirational piece so much, I adapted it for my Convention. Upside, each new Alien addition just has to compose their own verse...

"how the local automobile and motorcycle industry of a Anglo-ruled Argentina" Land Rover and variants ??

Would it become part of Commonwealth ? Cricket and Rugby instead of FOOOOTBALL ?? I had an aunt and cousin there, but they 'fell off the map' during one of the military dictatorships' clamp-downs. Could be they changed address several times, burned all reference to us and got through. Sad...

First, railroads had to compete with canals and their rich investors. Second, you gotta move development of steam-power up a fair way. IIRC, best part of a century was 'wasted' because each inventor 'locked down' their work with patents and virulent law-suits. IIRC, about five complementary...

Perhaps another version of Spanish Flu caused by the mingling of post-war refugees' strains of the common types... FWIW, there some serious mortality spikes in UK due to persistent Winter smogs engulfing the coal-fired cities. IIRC, these 'Pea Soupers' culminated in some absolute horrors during...

A small correction: Muskets were up to five feet long, plus any bayonet. Not necessarily a match for lancers, with or without horse-pistols, but still dangerous to cavalry. How the opposing forces are handled makes all the difference...