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Controlling Malta would have given the Turks a huge naval strategic advantage - in this era the Turks controlled both sides of the Med, but weren't able to connect via easily between the two sides as Malta acted as a curtain, forcing the Turks to use corsairs to control the western side. I'm not...

Eh, not quite. For other countries, yes, but England abandoned that idea long before most countries as Parliament 99% of the time was based in London, and they were fairly early on considered to be an instrumental function of government, and therefore administration set up around them. London...

Sailing around the Cape was a horrible journey - possibly the most dangerous in the world and certainly among the ones sailors least wanted to do. It's not a great route to try to turn into a major shipping route. It would probably accelerate interest in a Central American canal. Plus, if they...

Uh, that's kind of what did happen. Virginia is known to this day as "the Old Dominion" because throughout the Commonwealth era it declared for the Stuarts rather than accepting the rule of Cromwell - Charles II gave it the name "My Old Dominion" in recognition of the fact that it acknowledged...

Many countries had just as turbulent a transition of the throne in the same era. Being deposed by a rival claimant was an occupational hazard across all of Europe, as were noble rebellions and civil wars in general.

Why exactly would Philip join the order? What would be the benefit to him?

Well...it's possible for a MP to be promoted to the office of PM if the standing PM steps down during their term - Tony Blair had the Labour Party confirm Gordon Brown as the new leader of the Labour Party and then resigned in 2009, which made Brown de jure Prime Minister, and there was absolute...

Sorry, hadn't logged in between posting my last message to see your comments. It's fairly inconsequential really. Your NZ example clearly shows there is precedent (OTL, anyway) for them altering the length of Parliaments, and I doubt the reasons behind it were anything that couldn't be...

Velasco, the important point is that Henry Tudor was descended from royalty in the first place because of an illegal marriage. Widowed queens weren't allowed to just remarry at will - they were supposed to be at the discretion of the court and the new King - or they would be sent back to their...

Eh, Henry Tudor only came to even consider himself as a Lancastrian heir when the Lancastrian party was devastated by the Wars of the Roses and essentially shorn of all leadership. His coming to power was a fluke, a total one-off. Pretty much any change to this era will probably write him out of...

Hey Glen, great to see you back. Sorry I couldn't reply earlier, but I was away in Paris for a long weekend, and thus was unable to follow this forum. Enjoying your updates, by the way, and I'm glad to see that Bonfire Night has been retained in the Dominion, even if as a stiff-upper-lipped Brit...

Ah, I see. Well either way, Denmark (via Norway) had had control of Greenland for a long time by that point, and Greenland was still near-useless as either a trading post or military base, so it was near-ignorable for the British. It's true that the Scandinavians often did seem to find failure...

Ah I see. Well, Parliament would oppose the war effort full stop, as it would see it as a conflict they had little interest in. If Parliament refuses to commit enough troops to make a difference, it won't be because they want to limit Danish ambition, it'll be because they don't want to waste...

Eh, you're looking at it in the wrong way. Denmark joining the UK in Personal Union does not make Denmark a British territory. They may not have as strong an economy or overseas colonies, but the Danes were proud of their naval strength and their military history in the Baltics, and just because...

Probably high. The more interesting question for me is: what's the chance that - probably after a weak period of military stumbling as all revolutionary governments experience - the British Republican government then attempts to go all levee-en-masse on the Americans to take them back? After...

I believe that the British had actually already fought the Battle of New Orleans after the Peace of Ghent was signed (I think you're getting confused with the Treaty of Paris 1783, which ended the ARW, and the Treaties of Paris 1814 and 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars), so yes ;)...

Touche, you have me there. Though half of those first cousin pairings are Hapsburgs ;)

I'm not aware so. Britain tried to take the River Plate in 1806, but that was because by then, the Spanish had lost or were about to lose most of their empire, and they wanted it for the trading supremacy. The Welsh often colonised Patagonia, but this was without the permission of the Spanish...