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So the US has the Louisiana Purchase to the Sabine, and then comes the Texas Revolution, and then this new war with New Spain? Sorry, I'm confused o_O. Is it that the Texas Revolution and the Pastry War are combined so that Spain is attacked by both the French and Americans? Does this only take...

But not in Taiwan, probably because there was little resistance. Taiwan had always been a frontier society, with little attachment to the Qing Empire, which had largely neglected it; it accepted Japanese rule fairly easily. In the days before the war Japan did make an effort to develop it on...

Japan's population in 1940 was about 73 million. To get something of the feeling, Taiwanese director Wei Te-Sheng's "Japanese" trio of movies,: Cape No.7: deals with relationships from the Japanese colonial era, though mostly set in the present. Warriors of the Rainbow: based on a historical...

Ahh, the Haida- or as described in my New Albion TL: "The original wank". They have a very big reputation, which often exasperates anthropologists who object to the popular image of them as some from of dominant super-warriors that the rest of the tribes huddled in fear of.

Taiwan was Japan's first and most successful colony; in the 1930s they began a process of trying to assimilate the Taiwanese. While the use of Japanese language was widespread, and some aspects of Japanese culture widely adopted (baseball!), the problem was Japanese ethnocentrism (racism). Japan...

Louisiana War 1826-1830 North Americans had been starting to drift across the Mississippi since 1800, but only in small family groups. The Spanish had tried to restrict this; Bernardo de Galvez in particular (Prime Minister 1795-1815) had wanted to fill the Louisiana Territory with Spanish, or...

Count me in

I was born in Edmonton, spent my childhood in Grande Prairie, worked for CN in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and spent quite a few years working the oil patch from Estevan and Manyberries north to Norman Wells and Tuktoyaktuk, so, yeah. OTOH, we do get the Napa Valley, Oregon Coast, and I may get...

No, sad to say I can't make maps. In 1820 it would look basically like this, [which is OTL North America after the Treaty of Paris 1763. The green is all British; purple is Russian; and purple/brown striped, disputed between Russia and Spain] -ATL differences The United States of North...

Yeah, checking up on it, it's a pretty crappy map- doesn't even show the upper Assiniboine. OTOH, the original map is of the watershed of Lake Winnipeg, so while they don't show the upper part of the river, the label is for the drainage area of the Assiniboine, not the actual river. I should...

There were a couple of old threads 1-2 years ago discussing the naval powers of Spain and the USA in the early 19th Century. I know, I posted one of them; but the search function won't find them- anybody know them?

Sorry- you are of course correct. :confounded:. I'm of English descent, and so have a tendency to overlook the other parts. I understand there's a lot of that going around lately. (Edited: I realised that the original reply could have been seen as a bit snarky or dismissive. Apologies.) Still...

Afrikaaners in Amerika! 1805-1824 During the War of the Southern Netherlands (France vs Britain and the Netherlands 1792-1796), France takes the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, but the Boers are not happy about coming under foreign rule- especially Catholic rule. A revolt breaks out but is...

Beaver Wars 1780-1821 With the Conquest of Canada ratified in 1780, North American interest in the northern fur trade began to grow, with Montreal as the main center. The North American Fur-Trading Asociation (NAFTA) began to grow rapidly, hooking up Yankee money with French-Canadian...

looking very good! Will follow with interest.

That's what I like about this site- learn a new word every day. Wiki says it's 'modern'. When did it come into use?

For example, on the "French never Colonise Indochina" thread, three posts in we see this by our thread starter here: Which tells me that if I want to start a pre-/non-European SE Asia thread, I'd better spend a loooong time reading up on SE Asian history.

Alternate history in general, and this forum in particular, is not some free-floating planet inhabited by dispassionate aliens objectively observing the history of Planet Earth. It is an English-language site, the majority of users are from the Anglo-sphere, followed by Europe. People tend to...

Andrew Jackson After the defeat of Tecumseh’s Rebellion in 1809, attention is turned to the situation in the Southwest. A prominent Franklin slave-owner named Andrew Jackson leads a militia attack on the Creek Indians in the Tallapoosa area (Bowles’ old stomping grounds. By no means have all of...

The Geeks had always seen Constantinople as their capital; even when Athens became the capital it was regarded as temporary. The capture of Constantinople and the Greek majority coastland was the main aim of the Greeks when they attacked Turkey in 1919.