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Somewhere in Central America, perhaps. The US probably wouldn't tolerate outright imperialist "Golden Circle" conquests, but conflicts over commercial interests aren't out of the question. OTL, two of the big three "Banana Republic" fruit companies (Standard Fruit and Cuyamel) seem to have...

In terms of military designs, the only one I would expect to be significantly affected would be the Iowa class battleships. OTL, they were designed to just barely fit through the locks of the Panama Canal, with the (planned but never built) follow-on Montana-class BBs significantly exceeding it...

That sounds like Robert Heinlein's Solution Unsatisfactory, written in late 1940 and published in early 1941. Real life radiological weapons are a thing, at least theoretically, but they're orders of magnitude less effective as weapons than Heinlein postulated in his story. When he was writing...

OTL's 1870 Franco-Prussian war has the be our baseline here. One potential difference I can see is Bavaria's role: Prussia's other 1870 allies (Baden, Wurtenburg, and the North German Confederation states) were already tied to Prussia in 1867, but Bavaria didn't align with Prussia until shortly...

According to this analysis, done using W-Nominate scores to assess likely voting preferences, a contingent election in a scenario where Lincoln had an electoral plurality, Breckenridge second, and Bell third would have resulted in Lane winning the Vice Presidency cleanly in the Senate, while...

The key for Germany to stay in the war is weakening the British blockade, either by the British government taking a less aggressive stance on dual-purpose contraband (e.g. allowing food and fertilizer through the blockade if they're earmarked for civilian use) or by the Germans doing well enough...

Not sure about classical armies, but at least according to this, cycle charging was sometimes practiced in Napoleonic cavalry tactics:

First, the POD is questionable. It's widely speculated that Lord Salisbury was already monitoring the plotters and aware of at least their general plans, but was deliberately "allowing the plot to ripen" before shutting it down. If this is true, then you need an earlier POD to save the plot...

For Germany to have a chance at a stalemate in the East at this point in the war, they need more than just the absence of WAllied invasions of Europe. Remember the three huge contributions the British and Americans were making to the war effort before Husky and Overlord: The blockade. Thanks to...

This paper attempts to project various 1860 Election outcomes in the House, based on W-NOMINATE scores.

The pursuit of Goben and Breslau plays out differently and they wind up interned in an Italian or Greek port instead of Constantinople. Consequently, Turkey stays neutral and the straits remain open to Russian (and British and French) merchant ships. This vastly improves Russia's economic...

He changed his mind in favor of big guns in 1902, for three big reasons: The rate of fire for 12" guns had improved significantly, rising from 0.3 rounds/minute in 1890 to 1.5 rounds/minute around 1900. This is still a lot less than 6" QF guns (5-15 rounds/minute), but the gap was narrowing...

Admiral Horthy probably doesn't count, since his Hungary was landlocked and had no navy to speak of. His Admiral title was a carry-over from his rank in the defunct Austro-Hungarian Navy, and he'd switched to commanding land troops (initially a group of anti-communist militias) during his...

England was a lot smaller than France during the relevant period: England had about 20% of France's population in 1600 and 25% in 1700. Even all of Britain added together (England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland) was only about 25% of France's population in 1600, 40% in 1700, and 60% in 1800...

Didn't mean to imply they were specific to Grant: as far as I know, he only had a direct hand in the Amnesty Act. I was responding more to the first part of your previous post than the second. "White southerners" was not a monolithic category. There was a politically-active minority of white...

A few ideas I can think of that might lead to a more successful reconstruction, at least in terms of delaying the Redeemers taking power: Get Radical Reconstruction rolling earlier by getting Johnson out of the way. Either have impeachment succeed (House impeachment managers don't botch the...

The Interstate Highway System was largely built on that model, with the main highways bypassing urban centers for through traffic and spur routes splitting off for traffic into/out-of the cities. There is an older "US Route" system that didn't follow this model, though, as well as various...

If you're judging the relative merits of Grant and Sherman, then Sherman only gets credit for the execution of the March to the Sea, not its strategic concept: Sherman and Grant planned the March together, as part of Grant's overall strategy for Union operations. Remember that at this point in...

I was going off this bit from wikipedia: Unfortunately, neither of the citations at the end of the paragraph support the bit about Palmerston and uncharted wilderness, so I need to at least partially withdraw my assessment of Britain's interest. I tried looking for other sources, but none of the...

At the time, Britain didn't want it at any price: British Canada, like Russia, already had more uncharted wilderness with rotten climate than they could use. That actually wasn't a joke: the current Prince of Lichtenstein has stated in interviews (article in German) that one of his predecessors...