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Horrible title, I know. After the end of the Civil War, the US send a large number of troops to the Rio Grande to make clear that a continued French intervention wouldn't be tolerated. Since the war didn't go too well for them anyway, the French decided to withdraw from Mexico the following...

William of Orange Nassau, Sovereign of the United Provinces (part 1) The year was 1584 and it where dark days for the Dutch cause in general and William of Orange, nominal leader of the Dutch, in particular. After initial setbacks, the Dutch had managed to push the Spanish troops out of most of...

Simple question actually. Assuming that he wouldn't have been assasinated would Long have had any chance of being elected in 1936 or 1940? Thoughts?

Throughout his reign, Napoleon II pursued a rather eccentric foreign policy. Some of his projects where rather succesful (the Crimea War, supporting Italian unification), while other projects failed miserably (his scheme for the America's). His most notable failure is probably being unable to...