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Some of the Ottawa and other tribes around the Great Lakes rebelled (others hedged their bets and remained neutral; the Ottawa settlement around Michilimackinac, for example, made a hefty profit acting as a middle man between the British and the hostile tribes). Pontiac's War had more to do with...

The Cherokee may have been hostile at the end of the 7 Years War, but that doesn't mean they will stay that way once the immediate conflict is ended (any more than their traditional alliance with the English had prevented the conflict from breaking out in the first place). The northern nations...

As you note, it's basically impossible (Henry had far more important things to worry about than Turkey), but if it did, England would be in far too much chaos to do anything. English succession is somewhat unclear at this point; Henry has no male heir, his older sister Margaret is in Scotland...

They kind of did, in the early Republic. By the end of the American Revolution, Continental currency was trading at basically 1% of face value (because the government had a war to fight, and no way to raise revenue; under the Articles of Confederation, all decisions had to be unanimous, so the...

It's a later POD, but: Richard of Gloucester (a.k.a. OTL's Richard III) falls down the stairs and dies in 1480. As such, he never usurps the throne, and his nephew manages to keep his throne as Edward V of England. Without the OTL fallout from the usurpation, Henry Tudor never manages to gather...

Canadian attitudes today are not remotely the same as they were in 1776, though. The whole Canadian national identity largely didn't exist at the time, and what there was had no more attachment to the British than it did to the Americans (especially after the French allied with the US, which...

Capturing Quebec doesn't mean retaining it, but it does put the colonists in a much better position. Logistics for the British in a counter-invasion would be fairly lousy as well, and retaking the place would almost certainly come at the expense of other operations (e.g. the New York/Long Island...

Some form of Reformation is almost certainly coming. Proto-Reform movements had been breaking out long before the POD (the Lollards and Hussites being the most famous, but hardly the only, examples, and you can arguably go back to various movements like the Franciscans or before). Changing the...

Something else to think about: This is all bumping up against the Reformation and the resultant chaos in Germany and elsewhere. Doubly so if we are butterflying away Charles I and V's empire, leaving the HRE and Spain under different rulers (which will almost certainly affect how the Emperor...

America in 1803 is very different from America in 1775, both demographically and ideologically, and even more different from French perceptions thereof. That said, there absolutely was discrimination against Catholics on a national scale in the 19th Century (see, e.g. the Know Nothings). As to...

Yes, Cairo at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi River is a crazy good location (prone to occasional flooding, but that didn't stop all sorts of other river/coastal towns from becoming huge). If the development of railroads had been slowed slightly, it would seem to be in a good...

The Soviets had essentially halted the German advance before the US got significantly involved; Lend-Lease was major for the offensives that pushed the Germans back out of Russia and eventually all the way to Berlin, but the Germans had been stopped without it. The bigger difference is that the...

War with Prussia has already happened and essentially been won. That's a sunk cost (and while you can debate the value of East Prussia, it's certainly better than "nothing" which is what Peter III got from his peace treaty with Prussia). Holstein is a pipe dream; holding it will just incite...

Note that French succession had a longstanding ban on female descent; Napoleon continued that OTL, and likely would ITTL as well (since changing it would be difficult, and he's likely to continue to hope for a son for some time after his daughters are born). So they aren't heirs to the throne...

They aren't going to be in a position to credibly threaten to invade the Home Islands (the logistics for that invasion would be nightmarish compared to Normandy, and they would want to be able to build up significantly beforehand), nukes are as far away as OTL in development, and the Soviets are...

As others have said, it really depends on how far back you're willing to go. The Palatinate in 1618 was prominent enough that the Bohemian rebels chose their Elector as their anti-king (and a successful Bohemian Revolt in 1618 would have all sorts of interesting ramifications), but by the end of...

If they somehow don't forbid people of "impure" blood right away, they will very soon. The Spanish Church saw the New World with its native inhabitants (who were unexposed to the heresy and corruption of the Old World) as sort of an Edenic land, ripe for establishing a more perfect Christian...

There are several different political currents going on here. The official ban on the Transatlantic slave trade was the status quo in the US since 1808, so the CSA would have made waves by changing that (and made foreign support even more difficult to achieve). The Upper South had economic...

In addition to no Act of Succession, the lack of any Hannoverian holdings also has pretty significant effects on British politics and foreign relations.

Something else to consider: both arquebuses and longbows are essentially only of much use for war; you don't need a full fledged longbow for hunting (and it's massively unwieldy for one). That means that people have no incentive to keep trained (and longbow use, in particular, basically requires...