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A fair point, which is why I'm suggesting burning most of parliaments baskets prior to seeking a decisive battle against the Earl of Essex. :D The royalist Oxford Army was able to tie down Parliaments main army in indecisive engagements across the midlands for most of the war, but there were...

It depends. Gell's death early on would give the royalists a better shot at securing Nottingham as well as Newark, and would allow for much more cooperation between the King at Oxford and the the Earl of Newcastle's Northern Army. As a result you'd also create a large royalist salient between...

Militarily the loss of Lord Fairfax, Sir William Brereton or Sir John Gell would be bad blows for parliament, as they were all capable field commanders who managed to defeat or delay the progress of the regional royalist armies. Lord Fairfax was the better general as evidenced by the fact that...

This is the best that I can offer you, though its not one of my areas of expertise so I can't vouch for it being completely accurate. This site also has good maps for the Roman provinces of Britannia and the Post-Roman Briton, Pictish and Saxon Kingdoms too, and by clicking on the individual...

The Trained Bands were not actually present at the Battle of Edgehill and were still stationed in London under Major General Skippon at the time of the battle. Here is an overview of the battle and the subsequent movements of each army and this is a decent order of battle for both sides for...

Actually a decisive victory at Edgehill still won't be enough to win the war for the royalists. London was defended by the capital brigade of trained bands, with the Red, White, Yellow, Blue, Orange and Green Regiments amounting to around six thousand men. These city regiments were the...

Well the succession of Anglo-Saxon Kings was to a degree electable, but theres no reason to assume that the Witangemot wouldn't continue to support a series of Godwinson's on the throne. As long as the family produces sons who can prove themselves to be capable rulers and able to defend England...

Somehow I just know that I should not equate near total silence with a general approval ;)

To my knowledge there were barely any borrowings from Brythonic Welsh in Old English; in total something along the lines of only a hundred words, that can be definitively proven to be of Brythonic origins. I know there was a relatively recent suggestion that Old English borrowed its structure...

Indochina could be one of the first targets invaded by the Japanese from their bases in China under such circumstances, but on the assumption that this doesn't happen then I think it would just be within range of the equivalent of the combined Fleet if it was operating out of the naval base at...

Dublin or Londonderry could be used at a pinch but again they both lack naval dockyards, and using them before the Cessation of Arms is agreed in 1643 would be problematic. Bristol would be be a good choice after its capture as well given that the large amount of merchant traffic handled there...

I'd expect a naval war under such circumstances to go very badly for the Royal Navy, given that its naval and aircraft construction program have not really kicked into gear by this point. With less resources and a war on two fronts this early into the war, Britain is going to be hard pressed to...

This is an idea for an alternate history that I've been considering recently, and I was wondering if anyone with some knowledge of the Civil War or naval matters might be able to help me out. Parliament had been pushing to get one of its supporters appointed as Lord High Admiral of the fleet...

Agreed Its more likely that a fragmented Ireland divided into five of more kingdoms would, for the first several centuries at least, slowly become a cultural and political satellite of England. You will almost certainly see some conflict between England and Ireland at some point given that...

I'd guess that the ideal situation to meet the terms of this challenge would be to have a fairly centralized and efficiently administered English kingdom that possesses a halfway decent fleet, and follows a foreign policy similar to that of the House of Wessex. By this I mean that Welsh kings...

The one documented occasion when the Irish and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms fought was the attack upon the Kingdom of Brega by King Ecgfrith of Northumbria circa 682AD. However this occurred around the same time as hostilities broke out between the Northumbrians and the Pictish kingdoms, making it...

I'm kinda flattered that so many new people seem to have trawled through the site to read it, and that the posters who followed it originally are still eager for more as well. :) Christ it nearly has! I may not have posted anything in a while but I still check the site out fairly frequently to...

Jesus I had no idea so many people were reading this :) To answer your questions: If I'm honest I've barely done any work on the Major and the General for about a year and a half. After my last computer crashed, taking all my research, orders of battle, bookmarks, the drafts of the next...

I have to agree that 664AD is far too late to prevent the ascendancy of the Roman Catholic church, and this is in large part due to King Edwin of Northumbria who not only brought about the conversion of the Bernicians and Deirans, but also brought pressure upon the East Anglian and...

I know...yet again I have promised something and failed spectacularly to deliver, though I must again lay the blame squarely before the alter of technology. You see my CD drive seems to have decided that my life would be more fulfilling without it, and has accordingly stopped working...leaving...