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    The New North American Government With the death of James Volk, a noted pacifist, Generals Edgardo Bermudez and Malcolm Norris, the two highest ranking commanders of the Loyalist Mexicans in North America, saw the need to find a leader for the country that was more willing to cooperate and...
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    The Chiapan Neiderhofferists Chiapas was by far the poorest state in the United States of Mexico; the admission of the Mexican Antilles earlier in the decade had not changed that fact. Mostly Mexicano in terms of ethnicity, it had been left in the dust by the rapid development of Jefferson...
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    The Firebombing of Philadelphia Burgoyne was a city that was deeply divided between the Loyalist Mexicans and the Recinists; the city had erupted once more into violence with the assassination of President Lassiter. However, to the east there was a bastion of peace and North American...
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    Kramer Associates and the beginning of the Sino-German War President Carl Salazar of Kramer Associates had a long distaste for the Greater German Empire, for it was during the First Global War the Germans, in solidarity with their allies in Mexico, expelled all Kramer affiliates and seized...
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    The Purgation of Russia Upon his ascension to the Chancellorship, Schottenstein fired all of the generals that had survived the disastrous war in France as well as those botching the war in Russia. In their place Schottenstein appointed Hildebrant Boeckmann, a general from Breslau, to lead...
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    The Ouster of Kiermaier and the reorientation eastward The Treaty of Eindhoven was absolutely humiliating to Chancellor Kiermaier; after returning from the Netherlands he was immediately summoned to the Diet, where leader of the opposition Klemens Schottenstein called for the ouster of the...
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    Germany is among the more conservative powers of Europe and as such any Neiderhofferist rebellion would be stifled in short order. However, in rebellious Russia and Poland, and less than completely loyal Arabia, Neiderhofferist ideas would be more popular.
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    The British General Election of 1979, Part II The election came when the French were victorious in Catalonia and the Basque Country; this was exploited to great effect by all parties; however Priestland had capitalized on it most effectively. Perrow was cast as somebody who was not willing...
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    The British General Election of 1979, Part I After the end of the Second Global War Gordon Perrow had lost the confidence of Parliament; a good portion of his country, and the homes of many influential aristocrats for good measure, were destroyed in nuclear fire and in the battles of...
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    The Catalonian and Basque Uprisings With the apparent success of the creation of the Egalitarian Republic of France, with its ally in the Netherlands, Neiderhofferism began to rise among the separatist groups in Catalonia and the Basque Country, both longtime parts of the Kingdom of Spain...
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    Cordonnier's Purges On April 1st, Cordonnier, now the supreme ruler of France and by proxy the Netherlands, announced that the deaths of Jean-Pierre Valliancourt and his entourage was the work of "counterrevolutionary traitors that seek to destroy our progress." Therefore, he contended in a...
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    Cordonnier takes Command of France The assassination of the beloved Ruben Allard in Amsterdam was a national tragedy in France; however, certain members of the People's Assembly, led by Director of Military Logistics Mathieu Cordonnier, were secretly glad. What they had wanted was an invasion...
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    The Dutch Insurgency The Treaty of Eindhoven, which had ended the war in Europe, had promised a "free and independent Netherlands." The Dutch people had expected this to apply to France as well as Germany; they did not want to be part of the Empire that Germany had forged, but they did not...
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    List of Alternate History Movies

    That's considered honorary alternate history, if we are willing to be charitable. Most would consider those not real alternate history as there was no conscious decision to change the past; by that definition it is science fiction.
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Theoretically, it differs from Marxism in many respects (see the FWoaN wikia for more information on that) but in practice it would look not unlike Soviet-style communism. In regards to the practice, France will be going in that direction in the coming updates.
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    The Norfolk Riots Norfolk, Virginia was the site of the largest North American naval base north of Georgia; only the base in Hillsborough, Georgia, was larger in size, and that was a recent development. The Worden government had ordered the expansion of the Hillsborough base in preparation for...
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    Again, thank you. I must ask, what in particular interests you? Europe? North America? East Asia?
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    Thank you. Anything in particular that stands out?
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    The Treaty of Eindhoven German, French, British, and other delegates convened in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, under French occupation, to discuss the end of the current European War. The war in North America appeared to be winding down to the European powers and it increasingly looked like...
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    Glossary of Sealion Threads

    Another one here.
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