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Taiwan getting nukes before the year 1900 would be pretty impressive to see...

I'm not so sure. If Frederica had had a child after their separation, it would almost certainly have been declared illegitimate, unless there had priorly been rumours that the Duke had been coming to see her again and staying the night. If he had been rumoured to be seeing her in this way then...

The problem with bronze is that it doesn't have the durability of iron. It can certainly be forged into any shape iron can, and for a while it will seem to do the job just as well, but ultimately bronze is a more brittle metal. Bronze used to be used for cannon, for instance, long before anyone...

Eh, yes and no. You're right in that historians are now finding that many people married later on in life than otherwise thought, and that it was common to see couples with more than 10 years age different including where the husband was younger. However, these figures are skewed slightly by the...

There's a big difference between winning the war and actually uniting the kingdoms. The English managed on a number of occasions to overrun Scotland and declare it subject to England, the problem was that there was no appetite at all in Scotland for union, the English lacked the money and men to...

How can not granting them citizenship in the first place possibly be enforced? How do you define someone as Loyalist? 500,000 may have supported the British but (at a guess) no more than perhaps 10-20,000 actively fought for them, so how do you dictate who counts as a Loyalist after the war? Get...

I'd say that mob justice sees their population reduced somewhat and many others forced to flee. A similar fate most likely awaits any who try to lead a political life while advocating pro-British let alone annexationist tendencies. Can I just ask, why exactly would Congress have to declare...

True, but this is the pre-1900s forum, of course...

There has been a Kingdom of Great Britain, though. And I'd be surprised if that was the title George wanted, as it was George himself who refused to be made an Emperor. The title offered to him was Emperor of the British Isles.

But there's no recognition of Ireland in that name. To use your USA example, that's like naming the USA "the United States of New England" or something. For a country where the Irish already have a persecution complex and jump at the chance to protest about their treatment, that's almost like...

The German nobles typically aren't going to be very eager to elect a man with no land in Germany as HRE either. Not to mention that the Imperial throne was largely also settled by bribes, and I'm not sure whether Henry would've been willing to commit the money to paying them. It would take...

Wasn't that just legal fudging to give Henry VIII the right to call himself "Your Majesty" (previously the style only of an Emperor, but later became common standard for a King - probably because of Henry) though? England could technically claim to be an Empire based on controlling Wales and...

Depends I guess. Depends on the support they receive from outside Italy, and how quickly they act to dislodge the French. But yes, it's entirely possible they could fail. Edit: Italy, not Spain. I was too tired when I wrote this.

Exactly. There have also been three cruise liners by the name of Britannic (including the SS Britannic, which was a sister ship to the Titanic, hence the rhyme), there was a third century breakaway state called the Britannic Empire, and it's the same word, but deriving from a different dialect...

The Italians typically didn't like any single power taking a dominant position in Italy, especially (but not only) when that single power was foreign. The result would be the Italians uniting together and starting a number of wars against France in an attempt to remove them from the peninsula...

I'm not sure the word "Britannian" has any basis in history or grammar though. The correct word is "Britannic".

In the case of Mary of Burgundy, by the time she was at a marriageable age it was obvious that she was the only child, and thus the strongest claimant to the throne, of her father. It wouldn't make sense to marry her off to some English Duke with titles but little real income and thus prestige...

True enough, true enough. I still hold to my belief, but it's your TL so you should do what you think is right.

The numbering system starts as of the Norman Conquest, although I see why you make the mistake. The numbering system i.e. "Arthur the First" is actually shorthand for the long-abandoned full version which would be "Arthur, the First of that name since the time of the Norman Conquest"

Britain actually only took Malta (officially) in 1802. Minorca was handed away in 1783 on the assumption that Gibraltar alone could do the job. Cost also appears to be a consideration. I think public opinion as well as military by the end of the 18th century was that Minorca simply wasn't...