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  1. Is Lady Jane Grey a Legitimate Monach?

    In the counting of English Monarchs Lady Jane Grey is often included as a legitimate Queen during the Tudor dynasty. Does she deserve this? She was appointed heir by the ailing Edward VI in an attempt to keep the throne in the hands of a protestant monarch instead of Edward's eldest sister -...

  2. What if the Lib-Dems had stayed out of Government?

    In 2010 the Liberal Democrats emerged from the UK General Election as Kingmakers. With the Conservatives on 308 seats and Labour on 258 neither could form an outright majority and this meant that both turned to the Lib-Dems, as the third largest party in parliament with 57 seats, with offers of...

  3. American Civil War Generals: One More Chance

    I'm stealing this idea from another forum because it was a very good one and quite a puzzler. (I'm giving the same questions and the same options just slightly worded differently). McDowell, McClellan, Burnside, Pope and Hooker were all the defeated generals of the Federals in the East while...

  4. Did Kitchener Influence WWI for Better or Worse as Secretary of War?

    In this poll I ask people to judge the man purely on contibution to the First World War and nothing else. When hostilities broke out in WWI Herbert Horatio Kitchener was assigned to the office of Secretary of War. In this role he was in a position to exert significant influence on the British...

  5. WWI Poll - Best of the French Army Commanders

    Another WWI poll asking who was the best of the French Army Commanders. Again I ask only for their service as Army Commanders to be judged. August Dubail - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Dubail Emile Fayolle - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_%C3%89mile_Fayolle Henri Gouraud -...

  6. WWI Poll - Best of the Army Commanders of the BEF

    Moving on to more specific based polls, this one asked who was the best Army Commander in the BEF. I debated with myself about including Haig and Allenby but decided I would in the end and ask that they be judged purely on their time in command of an Army in the BEF and not for their service...

  7. WWI Poll - Best of the Central Powers Generals-in-Chief

    A companion piece to my last poll, this one asks who the best of the Central Powers main commanding general was, and, like the last poll, is limited but to Generals-in-Chief and Chiefs-of-the-General-Staff do to my confusion over the ranking systems in the Austrian and German armies. Franz...

  8. WWI Poll - Best of the Entente Generals-in-Chief

    As it is the year of the 100th anniversary of WWI I thought I might produce a few polls on the conflict, starting as I usually do with military affairs. This poll ask, which of the main commanding generals of the Entente forces was the best? I have limited the options to generals I'm pretty...

  9. Scott goes South

    I have no timeline or scenario planned out for this idea, just the idea itself. How would the American Civil War have developed if Winfield Scott had resigned his commission with the Federal Army and joined the Confederacy?

  10. Best Military Commander of the Scottish Wars of Independence.

    The Scottish Wars of Independence (1st War 1296-1328, 2nd War 1332-1357) were a crucial moment in the history of Britain for they reaffirmed the independence of the Scots from the English at a time when, prior to the outbreak of conflict, Scottish and English nobles were becoming increasingly...

  11. Kitchener's place in history in modern warfare

    Basically I want to ask; how does Kitchener rate with other 20th Century military figures? Does he rank with the best of the modern commanders or is his a relic who was out of place in a modern setting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kitchener,_1st_Earl_Kitchener...

  12. Percy Hobart not retired in 1940

    In 1940, just was War was about to begin in North Africa the decision was made to forcably retire arguably the most forward thinking and driven man in the British Army purely on the basis of his voice being that of a dissenter on British deployment of Armoured units. That man was Percy Hobart...

  13. Between Marlborough and Wellington

    As the spring turned into summer in 1722 it marked the end of a glorious period of British military history, for it was at this time that John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, died at the age of 72. Not until the 1800's and Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, would Britain produce...

  14. Vicksburg - Bowen Retreats on Jackson

    In April 1863 General Ulysses S. Grant began his operations to cross the Mississippi and advance on Vicksburg. He undertook this endeavor by launching two assaults simulanteously. One in the north under Sherman near Vicksburg itself at Snyder's Bluff intended as a distraction and one in the...

  15. Tenth Crusade

    Throughout the 1270's and 1280's King Edward I of England was engaged in a correspondence with a succession of Popes - 6 in 10 years - over the Holy Land. Ever since he had been forced to abandon Acre in the 9th Crusade - Edward was the only man not to agree to Baibar's terms - the English King...

  16. WW2 - Wedemeyer wrecks Anglo-American Trust

    In Andrew Robert's book Masters and Commanders he is quite scathing of Albert Wedemeyer's Anglophobic tendencies and Wedemeyer's habit of re-writing events to suit his ideology - in particular is a comment about how Wedemeyer attempted to accuse the British of reluctance to attack industry in...

  17. Rate Andrew Jackson as President

    Andrew Jackson is a controverial figure of American history. A hero of the War of 1812, inexorably linked to the victory at New Orleans over the British, and a successful indian fighter, he is an American Icon. Yet as the 7th President of the United State he recieves mixed reactions. He was the...

  18. The Importance of John Dill

    Field Marshal Sir John Dill - who never recieved a peerage - was one of the more prominant officers of the British Empire during World War Two. He served in 1939 as a Corps Commander on the Continentant before returning to the UK to become Vice-CIGS and then replaced Field Marshal William Edmund...

  19. Winfield Scott's place in history

    For a period between approximately 1812 and 1861 General Winfield Scott was the US Army. A celebrated battle commander who was responsible for regulating and organizing the professional army in peacetime, laying many of the foundations of what became US Army traditions. Probably the most well...

  20. Rating P.G.T. Beauregard

    Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard would have had everyone believe that he was unfairly sent out to rot in a military back-water of the Civil War. Yes, you could argue that Charleston was an important political position but the war was not going to be decided in that region, it would be decided in...
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