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That may be true, but is non-responsive to the challenge I've posted. Congratulations on winning your pedantry points. Now, care to actually take up the challenge itself?

POD no earlier than 400 AD.

It is one of the oddities of history that when the Roman empire fell in the West, in all of the former Roman provinces except one (Britannia), the Latin language of the conquered Roman provincial peoples survived and became dominant over the Germanic languages of their conquerors, leading to the...

Well, I agree with you that the thing is impossible. Just for different reasons.

Not really. The kind of gun you'd want to use on a Civil War landcruiser would be something like the old swivel guns that used to be used on naval vessels for repelling boarding parties. Probably a 2-pounder, with a barrel about 3 feet long, which would be mostly used to fire cannister charges...

Actually, most of the issues you've raised are non-issues. The armor would not have to be massive. Civil War Minie Balls were great anti-personnel weapons, but they wouldn't have great penetration power because they were fired at quite a low velocity compared to modern rounds of the same...

If dynamite existed. Which it didn't, until 1867. :D And the issue of black-powder smoke inside a closed vehicle is really a non-issue. The smoke issues out of the muzzle of the gun, which ONE WOULD HOPE will be OUTSIDE the vehicle, NOT INSIDE where the crew is. So vulnerable ventilation...

Well, it might be interesting to see Mary Queen of Scots crush Protestantism in Scotland, with English help...possibly Mary marries the son of Henry IX when her French husband dies and there is a personal union of the two kingdoms?

I did the same thing in my Third Hittite Empire timeline several years ago. A Christian Muhammad was at that time a rather new and unique perspective. It borders on being cliche now. It would be nice to see somebody postulate a scenario where Muhammad is removed from the equation and neither...

Why? Islam arose because of the work of one man...Muhammad...and you really can't point to any religious movements in the Arabian peninsula at that time which would produce an alternate Islam. The "Great Man" theory is sometimes overused, but there ARE many times when it does explain what...

The language died out between the 5th to 7th Century AD. That doesn't mean there were significant numbers of them left by that time. There are still small villages which speak Aramaean today, but that doesn't mean there is a viable Aramaean population out there which has any chance of...

Living off the land will only take you so far, and only at certain times of the year. Even Sherman didn't do it very much...basically between Atlanta and Savannah, during the prime harvest season, after which he was supported by secure supply lines by sea. And ammunition and replacement...

That must be why the Duke of Wellington did so poorly in the Peninsular War, and finally was crushed at Waterloo. And why Andrew Jackson lost at New Orleans. Defensive generals were decidedly at the disadvantage. :rolleyes: Assuming the Southern leadership plays Scott's game and accepts...

I think they'll find their opposition a good deal more substantial than they found in Mexico. And their supply lines will be very tenuous without the railroad network to back them up. And, what has that to do with the issue of war weariness?

As to who has high command for the South, that's hard to say. Looking at the higher commanders in the Mexican War, a lot of them were dead by 1850 (some in the war itself, and some in the period after the war), others were very old in the Mexican War and unlikely to have served again. Most of...

Not really. They've been fairly common in American history in just about every war we've fought (except the really short, decisive ones, which this one won't be).

Neither did Lincoln, and we all know what happened there. What led Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas into secession in 1861 wasn't the same issue which led the rest of the South into secession. The fact that Lincoln demanded troops for an invasion of the seceded States is what...

All true. However, the side with the biggest population is not necessarily going to be victorious. It does make victory easier, but not certain. The effect of the Minie Ball wasn't so much greater range as greater accuracy. Yes, the usual range for firefights stayed about the same. The...

Calhoun died in March 1850, and was in opposition to the proposed Compromise of 1850 offered by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. The Compromise Legislation itself was not passed until September 1850, and the key factor which allowed it to pass was the death of President Zachary Taylor, who...

I actually started a timeline on basically this POD some time ago, then got sidetracked after I had brought it forward to about 200 BC. One day I do plan to return to it...but it might give you some ideas.