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Alternatively, the British might just make bellicose noises and endless "preparations" drawing American troops to the North West while they accept Sam Houston's offer and annex Texas. Texas would be a lot easier for the British to defend than BC, and many of the Anglo settlers in Texas were of...

How? Stalin dead, Beria in charge, Soviet Union preoccupied with other issues. No, it doesn't end the cold war but it might well shorten it. (Beria, of course, has no intention of honouring the agreement but his successor does).

You don't really need a map. 54 degrees 40 minutes north is the southern border of Alaska. Basically, Polk was saying he did not want Canada to be anywhere on the West Coast.

I think Warren's my least surprising President. (Well apart from the one chap who ends up as President in mine when he's President in OTL) I was surprised by how many of us killed off Stalin early.

Still, assuming that he moved to San Francisco, would a Filipino born when the Philippines was US territory be a "natural born American" (General Soriano for example? Alternatively, and this is why I'm asking. Suppose Cuba became a State of the US? Would that make Cubans into Natural Born...

Natural Born I've been working on the assumption that "Natural Born" means the place you were born is NOW US territory? Would it, for example, have allowed a Puerto Rican or Filipino born before the Spanish American War to have become president? Or if it's US territory at the time, would it...

Why did they change the Constitution to allow British-born Jerry Springer to be President? Or did the UK become several states so that he WAS born on US soil?

The 53 States Timeline - Dewey Wins in 48 Here's the teaser... enjoy. 1948 It was the most widely predicted result for years. As long ago as a year before, newspapers were calling Thomas Dewey the next President of the USA. In the event, the result was frighteningly close. Pollsters had...

Actually, we had this conversation today and came to the conclusion that what might make a successful Sealion would be the BEF not being evacuated from Dunkirk, but staying on and fighting (as Churchill ordered in OTL) and doing so victoriously, in that the BEF held on to Dunkirk and Calais (for...

Well as far as Britain's concerned. The Government were divided, some being pro-Confederacy and some pro-Union. The WHOLE of the Middle Class and Working Class (who didn't get a vote in those days) overwhelmingly supported the North. Support for the Confederacy would have led to unrest and...

I agree with Blackmage.

I suspect if that happens, Vladimir doesn't convert to Catholicism, he just helps Bardo Phocas (sp) become Emperor instead.

Well alright then, he TRIED to renege but didn't get away with it.

It was certainly discussed at the time. They also proposed making America a separate Kingdom, ruled directly by the Crown and with Americans voting for their own Parliament, which was equal to that of the UK.

The source I have says that Vladimir was baptised on 2 February 988 as it was a condition of his marriage to Anna but that they didn't marry until 989 after Basil had gone back on the agreement and Vladimir had seized Cherson to force Basil to live up to his part of the bargain. I use the...

I've just thought of a PoD that could lead people on that world to believe the French Revolution caused the American one... Suppose, at the end of the 7YW, instead of keeping Canada and handing back Martinique and Guadeloupe, Britain decided to keep the whole of the Antilles and give Canada...

Now there's a question. I think it would because Louis XIV had already wasted huge sums various wars and even the Seven Years' War had cost a fortune. The American War of Independence was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

And yet my local Turkish delicatessen sells Turkish pork sausages. (And very nice they are too, though not as nice as Polish ones).