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Regarding Ethiopia - it's Spain's natural partner against the Somalis/Sudanese. Spain will want to build a Suez canal as early as possible, which will make control of the Red Sea vital as the quickest route to India - and the easiest way is with a strong client in Ethiopia. Portugal followed...

Map indicates it's still Ottoman. But England's claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem does give them a theoretical claim to the (defunct) throne of Cilician Armenia.

I have in mind a scenario in which a different French Revolution leads to Anglo-American war, with the Americans as a declared French ally, in 1793. Washington is still President and Pitt still Prime Minister. How would the two sides proceed militarily?

Would a Lafayette constitution have called for election by constituency? If so, how would these voting districts have been drawn? Regarding the French naval decline, did this occur after the Bastille or not until the execution of Louis XVI?

That's very interesting. So the French request to the U.S. in honoring the treaty may be against Spain but not Britain. However, seeing Spain collapse in the New World, and Austria in the old once the levee en masse is introduced, will surely force British intervention by 1796 or 97 at the...

King of Etri, fascinating. So there are two distinct and interesting scenarios worth exploring: 1. Lafayette as the leader of Republican France and Washington's ally; and, 2. Ambassador Lafayette convincing the U.S. to support a Radical French government. What sort of constitution did...

1793, Philadelphia. In OTL, the Girondins, after taking power in Revolutionary France, sent perhaps the worst possible ambassador to the United States, Edmond-Charles Genet. "Citizen Genet," as the representative of America's crucial ally in the War for Independence, now representing a fellow...

So the French Revolution exports itself by fomenting reformism and early ethno-nationalism. Italy is almost certainly next, as IOTL. I assume that German nationalism will be promoted next, and once that genie is out of the bottle Prussia and Austria are both mortally threatened.

The Estado da India is actually in a better position in India ITTL than the BEIC in Clive's day - basically combining the OTL British, French, Dutch, and Portuguese possessions, plus Burma! It's seeming more and more likely that by around 1800-1820 Spain will control much of India and Egypt...

Don Pelayo (Pelagius of Asturias) loses the Battle of Covadonga disastrously, and the Umayyads complete the conquest of northern Iberia. While a Frankish incursion into OTL Catalonia is still rather likely, this will defeat the last independent Christian power within Spain and avert the...

No French Revolution. French demographic bulge is not expended in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, but population growth continues. Those seeking economic opportunities or political rights are naturally drawn to French trade partner and ally in the United States. If Louisiana and/or Quebec...

This is definitely a much more substantial defeat that the Ottomans suffered in the time period however. We're basically down to the Ottoman state at the death of Selim the Grim in 1520 IOTL. We didn't hear too much about the Muscovite campaign, which presumably focused on the Ottoman vassal...

Does anyone know how to find a copy online of "Napoléon et la conquête du monde, 1812-1823," purportedly the first modern alternate history? Written by Louis Geoffroy, 1836, and surprisingly hard to track down.

Hmm. If Spain can retake North Africa up to Tripoli, and use Tripoli, Malta, Sicily, Crete, and Cyprus as jumping off points, in invasion of Egypt is not totally unfeasible. It's not quite Napoleon in 1798, but the conditions are probably much better for European intervention than they were for...

That' be gold in them thar hills! Fantastic as alawys. What would the economic impact be of exploiting the mineral wealth of South Africa this early? How much of a game changer is this? Another interesting question - how far into Africa can European colonization get with the technology...

Whatever the thinking on the Subcontinent, strategic planners in London and elsewhere will be aware that a localized conflict runs the risk of linking into the broader war (as the Sino-Japanese War has done, both IOTL and ITTL). Creating warring belligerents - and even Attlee wasn't naïve enough...

On India - without the losses of the Second World War, I don't think the evacuation of India would be so precipitous (indeed, even OTL, Britain did not evacuate India for more than two years after the war in Europe ended). ITTL, I suspect the British leadership will hold out for a "Dominion...

This is South Africa, right? Sounds like Portuspain is about to stumble on the richest trove of gold and diamonds out there.

This is all OTL, except for the peace part.

It gets worse. Depending on where they settle, you may obliterate Starbucks and Seattle's Best, crippling the progress of Western Civilization!