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Roman policewomen? Given how macho the patriarchal Roman society was, I can't imagine women being granted legal authority over males (outside their own household servants and slaves). Female bodyguards for V.I.P. women are less unlikely in the Eastern Roman Empire, given the Greek tradition of...

A Roman female legion? Even in the worst circumstances, I'm afraid not. For all the reasons given above, cultural among them: in Rome as in ancient Greek cities military service and citizenship were the two sides of the same coin. For rather fanciful reasons I did a -very superficial- survey of...

Other French Uniformes d'Essai 1897-1912. 1897: basically adopted except for the helmet. 1902: artillery helmet 1903: the 'Boër' uniform, probably the most original, yet practical, attempt 1906: the 'beige blue' (actually blueish grey) uniform 1911: "Réséda" already mentioned 1912...

The persecution of Catholics in England is reminiscent of Keith Roberts' 'Pavane' novel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_%28novel%29, where (triggered by the assassination of Elisabeth) it was followed by a Catholic 'crusade' totally eradicating Protestantism :eek: The Auld Alliance was not...

This mostly applies to foxes, and they are more social than cats: they form permanent couples (or a male and a harem when food is abundant), the male brings food to the cubs, the young remain with their parents to assist in caring for new kits... I suspect foxes were not domesticated because Man...

Given that the Duchesse of Angouleme was at least as reactionary as Charles X and potentially more 'active' (when she tried to raise a royalist resistance in Bordeaux during the 100 Days Napoleon commented 'She's the only man in her family') the flag (white or tricolor) would have be an...

I had the Carabinières surviving the disapproval of Mme de Maintenon (who had very different ideas about the education and role of women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_royale_de_Saint-Louis) only because they had escorted the future Louis XIV during the Fronde -though probably without...

Butterflies I had the story of the Carabinières interwoven for more than 2 centuries with OTL French history, and doing so I (deliberately) committed what on this forum is a criminal offense: I neglected (undervalued, at least) butterfly effects, keeping them restricted to the likelihood of...

I expect so, except in extreme circumstances (I had them present at Fontenoy, but kept riding side-saddle in 'peacetime' uniform to prevent them from turning berserk like the rest of the Household cavalry). The only 'real' action I gave to the Carabinières, with a lot of casualties, was the...

'Amazons' as used by Potemkin were a perfectly respectable 'historical' reference, without overt religious connotations; 'Valkyries' on the other hand are part of a *pagan* mythology, so -Der Ring des Nibelungen notwithstanding- I can't see their name used before Nazism. Even so, they were not...

Some informations about Catherine II's Amazon Guard in Crimea on the excellent Oderint Dum Probent blog dedicated to Russian military history in the 17th & 18th C., and full of rare information: 'Amazon company in Balaklava, March-May 1787'...

OTL images of French female defenders in 1871: Had women to 'manly' roles earlier -for instance had, thanks to the precedent of the Carabinières, French women be allowed to form Garde Nationale Volontaire battalions during the Revolution With the precedent of a French female...

Since thread necromancy is bad manners, I post here some musings elicited by Challenge: Female Soldiers in the 1700's https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=6182448&mode=linear#post6182448 Background: As stressed in the original thread, this is very, very unlikely (even if...

Was not the Order at first invited to settle elsewhere? Let's suppose that at the end of the 15th C. the declining Order, in order to remain independent, instead of waiting for the conversion of Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach to attempt relocating to Mergentheim, agrees to move to the South, to...

The OP seemingly implies that the Deutschordensstaat remains independent until at least 1919 - say like the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, but probably very closely associated (Liechtenstein / Switzeland fashion?) with the IId Reich from 1871 on? But does this require the Order to remain Roman...

For information about the anthems of French origin: Tripartite & Brazil: Le Chant du Départ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5h6ps7e6vs Two Italies: La Galette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS_VEweHr50 Btw the melody of the God Save the Queen was initially composed by Lully...

Following the exemple of the Knights of Malta: ca. 1600-1870 (and parade until 1919): white uniforms with black facings, a white cassock with the complex Teutonic black cross, evolving with time to a white soubreveste / false cuirass with the black-and-gold cross (same general evolution as the...

For the WRE 476 is just a convenient, but artificial, date chosen by later historian to set the end of classical antiquity. What matters is what people *felt* then and there, and when Charlemagne was crown Western Emperor he, and most of people and the West, thought he was indeed one (given the...

If your traveler fell asleep in modern France, when awakening he would find the silence striking. There are very few place sin France where by daylight you can't hear motorcars at least in the distance, and none that I can think of where a hour can pass without hearing at least one plane. Our...

In 18th C. Southern France only the upper classes spoke 'Northern' French; given that 'French' was then the tongue of the educated in most Europe Catalonia was not much different from Provence, and more 'French like' than Protestant and German speaking Alsace absorbed without difficulty by...