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No, she hadn't. She had lost the Metropole, but could have evacuated the bulk of her remaining field armies - that's maybe nine fully equipped armies - and her air force to North Africa, protected by a navy that was substantially stronger and more modern than Italy's. See France Fights On for a...

As long as Foch still sends his famous signal: my centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent, I attack. Damn, but I love Foch. I know he was older than Pétain, but had he lived to 1941, you can be damned sure that France would have fought on from North Africa

I don't know why people always assume that things would have been that different had Collins lived. DeValera ran rings around him politically. While it's possible he could have made a difference, I actually think it more likely that, after 1932, Dev still comes to power and Collins is nothing...

I have thought about this for a very, very long time, and I believe the worst thing that ever happened to Ireland was Agricola being recalled by Claudius. He was of the opinion that a single Legion and some auxileries would be enough to conquer, though Gibbon has a wonderful quote about Irish...

The absolute latest you could wank Ireland would be 1796, when Lazare Hoche's fleet foundered off Bantry. Had he managed to land his 15,000 veterans, linking with a coordinated rebellion, they would have had a chance to free themselves from the British. Hordes of butterflies, though, because...

Barring a massive culture change, not very. Ireland has no real resources other than gas, and not even a hell of a lot of that. She had (actually still has) a high birth rate, but there was massive emigration throughout the 20th century until the Tiger boom of the 90s, which was largely the...

Napoleon was of average height for his time. Thanks for the replies. I personally would have said 1806, just before he decided to implement the Continental System

I only found the ASB forum when I realised that only when logged on could I see it, and have multiple ideas. One of them involves Napoleon but, in order to realise it, I need a starting point and here is the best place to get an answer. When was Napoleon, or more properly Napoleonic France, at...

One wouldn't need an invasion, mere intelligent contact with another sapient intelligent alien species would be enough to spur the nations to unite in some form. It would probably take the form of an enhanced US, and not because America is the dominant power, but it is a very practical way of...

Ireland, had Agricola had his way during the Claudian invasion of 70 AD. You have the problem of a unified nation state (in the relatively modern sense of the term), coupled with an extremely warlike people (historically, the Irish made damned good soldiers). Coupled with a disunited Britain in...

Emperopr Napoleon V, at the conclusion of the last Franco-British War in 1969, during which the Emperor ordered the razing of London. His son, the first heir apparent of the Imperial era not to be named for Napoleon I, had fled to Britain upon the successful murder of his fiancé Bernice on the...

Out of curiosity, what's German civilian morale like at this point? I know that Goebbels must be frantically trying to brainwash them as far as he can, but at this point surely the realisation that Germany is f**ked has to be seeping in somewhere

Winter will not slow operations down unless both GQG and IGS want them slowed down. Unless it's especially wet, the French and British will use the excellent German road network to advance where and when they like, the German forces opposing them will be simply be blown to pieces by the weight...

The Germans will be royally boned when at least 5 more French armies burst across the Rhine

I'm a policeman who hates doughnuts. Something wrong here

He will at least get a sense of what it is like to be shot and wounded, most of the senior generals of the time either had not experienced such or had forgotten. Might make a small difference to the fate of some of the poilues

Not to nitpick, but why would it take that long to recover from a superficial wound?

Liking this timeline so far

Francis Urquhart, making Frank Underwood look like a pussy since 1990