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I would say that troop usage wasn't what submarined the Verdun campaign plan. After all, the whole concept was geared towards a subsequent offensive elsewhere on the front, and you can't do that if all your reserves have been sucked into fighting. Verdun, after all, was not an end in itself...

That sounds like a route to a fast exit. Policies geared towards Turkish stuff in general are aimed away from any areas which might provide actual economic returns. The Anatolian plateau's stockherders aren't exactly the stuff of fiscal prosperity. So Nikaia tries this, maybe even has success...

The Continental System did not apply to France, just to the rest of Europe. It was even made explicit in 1811.

Pft. "Barbarian" wasn't even particularly pejorative. In fact, the martial connotations of barbarism provided the foundations for the Roman military's identity in the later Empire (one of the many reasons the army is incorrectly believed to have been primarily comprised of "ethnic" non-Romans)...

I think you need to separate the linguistic element of ethnicity and all the other ones. Despite the fact that most people who spoke Greek under the ERE would not have considered themselves Greek (indisputable, no matter what people say about Nikephoros Phokas or Georgios Gemistos Plethon), they...

Except that he clearly could have done so. Nashville - only one of the most important industrial locations in the traitor states and a major supply depot - was given away to Buell's leading elements without a fight, despite local forces outnumbering the Federals. While holding Nashville was less...

That's well and good, but it has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about. Modern Egyptian Arabic is completely different from the language spoken in Kmt. But even you agree that Greek, however much it has changed over the millennia, tinkered with, influenced by foreigners or by...

I have to confess that I have no idea what your point is anymore.

What kind of Christianity are you looking for?

Um, Katharevousa != all Greek ever. It's not even the official dialect anymore.

Those were the ancient Nubian states. You asked for Nubia, you got it. Yeah, but a person from modern Egypt and a person from Kmt wouldn't speak a recognizably related language. A person from modern Greece and a person from classical Athens would.

Try Peter Perdue, China Marches West, which is ostensibly about the Qing wars against the Mongols and the Zunghars but really ends up being all that along with a somewhat-potted-but-still-conversant-in-modern-scholarship history of the early modern Eurasian steppe.

That's kinda like saying that Louis XIV never invaded the Holy Roman Empire, because he had allies among the Imperial princes and, in places, local groups flocked to the French banners. Willem had to fight a three year war to establish control over the formerly Stuart kingdoms, with considerable...

The thing is, even McClellan was afraid to put recognition of the Confederacy into his platform because he knew it would be political suicide. All he would commit to, IIRC, was good faith negotiations.

I don't know much about the ACW, but if you absolutely have to have a battle instead of a campaign, I'd probably go with Perryville. And if it could be a campaign, I'd probably reverse ASJ's evacuation of West Tennessee in 1862. HAY GUISE HERE HAVE BOWLING GREEN AND NASHVILLE FOR FREES KTHX...

The Dutch were the only ones to actually succeed :3

The Dutch.

Makouria > Alwa > Nobadia > Meh > Generalized Kush Garbage

True, I suppose he doesn't go all out with the barbarians are evulz theme, and he's definitely not as bad as most. But he does basically say that immigrant pressures resulted in the demise of the (western) Roman state, no? The implicit message is that immigrant management policies are necessary...

Cold Harbor wasn't actually that bad, but ignoring that: when Federal forces initially crossed the river, the NVA was not deployed and was in a pretty dandy position for annihilation. Rapid, and largely lucky, extemporization on the part of Lee and Hotchkiss, along with general exhaustion on the...