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  1. A Rather Silly WI - Western ”Cossacks”

    Not really as in ”What if cossacks went further west”, but more ”What if some western king, at some point, decided to use some small nomadic group like the Irish Travellers or the Roma in the same way as cossacks, maybe even offering them land and loot”. I<m trying to figure the balance between...
  2. Alt-demographics

    So reading up on migrations I get a vague feeling that migrations are a toss-up that's not explored all that much. I mean... the anglo-saxons could have pushed the franks further south, leading to, say, a Frankish lorraine, larger flemish expansion in Belgica, repercussions would probably have...
  3. PC/AHC: Alt-Cypriots

    So I had a thought; initially Cyprus was sort of a colony of a colony of a colony; it was Assyrian, Phoenician, Greek, Egyptian (although this period mostly maintained the still extant divide between Phoenician and Greek cities). However by the time if became christian it was mostly greek...
  4. AHC/PC

    An idea: how would you go about to get the Galvez proposal for the Bourbon reforms adopted as is; that is, New Spain also gets split up in two viceroyalties, with a viceroyalty of Nueva Vizcaya covering Coahuilha, Tejas (minus lands conquered on Tamaulipas), the Californias, Sonora & Sinaloa...
  5. Quitandose un peso de encima - a Short History of XIX. Cent. Bourbon South America

    Part. 1. Wherein Butterflies are Slaughtered Chateau de Marracq, Bayonne, April 15th, 1808(1) The decision of a place to hold this meeting had been relatively complicated; the Doyen des Consuls(2) wanted Bayonne, even if the Prefect would have preferred Pau. Presumably the dean knew somethng...
  6. WI: Aranda plan, Bourbon america, with a twist

    So the theory, at its base: the Aranda plan was an attempt to convince the spanish monarch (iirc Carlos III) to divide the spanish colonies between his sons. I'm thinking, however, of a later POD. And a "Lorraine-Tuscany-Poland" type twist. IOTL, I can see a number of issues to this: - It...
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