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Bumping this to make sure it avoids the ignominy of the second page. :rolleyes:

There's a difference between an invasion from East Asia, and an invasion with a supply line as convoluted as it would take for an 18th century invasion of Japan by a European power. Also: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=The+Earl+of+Cornwall :p

A nebulous PoD for this idea, which has been fluttering around in my head for a while, is that the rains in Bulgaria, and along Suleiman's route in 1529, are significantly less heavy than IOTL, and with a result, less of his artillery is lost, and fewer of his draft camels die. Additionally...

The Swedish did in fact have a colonial empire in the New World. See here.

I don't disagree in the slightest. I'm saying people would have to see Bill Clinton as a wonderful pile of wonderfulness if they're going to get Hilary and Chelsea in at the same time.

I think we've had threads on those before-- though of course, we've probably had threads like this before. This was just something that popped into my head.

It would require Chelsea to be more active in politics from an earlier age, and would require a favorable conception of Bill as well. I think that's even more interesting than a father-son ticket though.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, would be to plausibly arrange for a successful father/son presidential ticket within a recognizable, plausible 'democratic,' United States, with a PoD of 1800 or later. Bonus points if the son is running for president while the father is running...

There are some mountains/significant amount of sea in the way of that.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, would be to come up with a reasonable alternate United States of America with a majority Native American large city (of above a million people) with a PoD of 1800. Bonus points if you can achieve this with a PoD of 1850 or later.

This is absolutely stunning.

I was speaking of the pre-Norman conquest/settlement of England, sorry for any misunderstanding. Which raises an interesting point. How might the English have acted, say, had the Drake-Norris Expedition failed, yet without any substantive Spanish backlash? Where could they have set their...

Conquered is a bit extreme a word for what they did; attempting to do as their Anglo-Saxon 'ancestors' had done long before, and half-succeeding does not a conquest make. Whatever the reason, it seems likely that Spain's finances would be less screwed in the long run, without joyous English...

For some reason, Irish Cossacks fail to arouse quite the same dread in a foeman.

Not to mention that relations with Mexico, had we purchased that land, would not be nearly as unilaterally cordial.as they have been since the partition of the Louisiana Region.

If Kléber wasn't killed in Cairo in 1800, the Egyptian campaign might have gone better, or even the Napoleonic wars in general. I still agree Egypt was a lost cause after Napoléon's brilliant strategic failure (it was basically a vanity project to begin with, and it's ridiculous that he managed...

It's a Shared Worlds map game series, where, starting from an OTL start-map, users take turns to modify the map. Unlike a usual map game, there is no justification of this change, hence the silent. It's a bit of a simpler game, seeing as each map can be knocked out without any justification...

I for one can't think of any plausible explanations for this map.

"The universe began approximately 14 billion years ago (by some estimates)..."

What's going on in the minimal span of time in the TL thus far is: I summarized historical events in the first post in order to give context, and I made my PoD in the second. I'm the best timeline writer ever. :p