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  1. France Establishes South Australian Colony?

    What if another European power were to establish a colony in South Australia prior to the UK's initial effort in the 1830's? It seems that the French would be most likely, though there would probably need to be some negotiation given any settlement's proximity to the other Australian colonies...

  2. Cryptography WI: One-time pad invented earlier

    IIRC*, the one-time pad was invented in 1917 and patented in 1919. The Weimar Republic was using it for diplomatic codes by 1920. What would the effect of its invention ten years prior and implementation by most major powers soon after have been? I guess I should ask if anyone has any idea...

  3. Latest Chance at Indian Independence?

    What is the last point in Indian history where it was plausible for the Europeans (especially the British!) to be kept from total domination of the subcontinent? Trawling through Sepoy Mutiny threads, there seems to be a semi-consensus that it would have been difficult to avoid it by that date...

  4. Spanish Discover Hawaii in 16th Century

    What would the effects of a Spanish discovery of Hawaii two centuries before James Cook discovered it be? Would the Spanish have been likely to spend any effort to conquer the islands if they had known about it?

  5. Stretched Kansas

    When Kansans were discussing how big of a state they wanted to be in the 1850's, there were two major groups: supporters of a Little Kansas and supporters of a Big Kansas. The Little Kansas supporters were in favor of a state of a size similar to the one that eventually achieved statehood. The...

  6. French Jerusalem

    Here's a map of an alternate division of the Ottoman Empire proposed by the UK during WW1 (I was searching for info on Mav's scenario). What effects does this alternate division have? To nail down the specifics, which are overly confusing: What effect would the following Franco-British...

  7. Idle Thoughts about an Argentine-Chilean war in 1901

    Here is some raw data pertaining a possible scenario for war between Chile and Argentina between 1899 and 1902. Besides the well known Beagle Crisis, which almost resulted in an all-out war in December of 1978, the closest Argentina and Chile were to war over their long history of border...

  8. Second Chancellorsville at Mine Run?

    I'm far from familiar with the Mine Run campaign, but from a brief summary it seems as if Lee could have won a fairly substantial victory at Mine Run given a few rebel-leaning butterflies. It seems like Meade planned to send 10,000 troops under Warren in an ill-advised frontal assault of the...

  9. The Last Armada: Voyage to Zamboanga

    PREFACE/TEASER The modern world was born at the turn of the last century. Written correspondence, oil lamps, wooden sail ships, and messengers on horseback transformed into telephone conversations, electrical lights, steam-powered ships of steel, and telegraph lines. Within a century man had...

  10. No Warsaw Pact

    What if the Warsaw Pact was never signed? Assume that NATO is still in existence. Perhaps the Soviets propagandize that they only need an economic union like COMECON, whereas NATO makes Western Europe American vassals? EDIT: I did not realize this would be that difficult. No Warsaw Pact or any...

  11. "Hoc voluimus!"

    March 17, 45 BC Munda, Hispania I. Worn down by thirty minutes' hand-to-hand combat without pause, the two armies' battle lines drew back from one another. In between them, the stink of death and the screams of the dying were ignored as the armies paused. No decision had been reached...

  12. Challenge: America's Vietnam in the Congo

    With a POD no earlier than August 2, 1964 (Gulf of Tonkin incident), have the United States get involved in a major ground war in the country known today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the war should inspire roughly the same domestic attitudes that the Vietnam War inspired in OTL.

  13. Effects of the European Defense Community

    The plan called for an integrated West European army, wearing the same uniform and consisting of homogeneous national units of battalion or regiment level. It appears that the big killer of this plan was its failure in the French parliament in 1954, and that was one with compromises meaning...

  14. An Independent New Spain

    Unrest at the News from Spain On June 21, 1808, the ship Corza anchored in the harbor of Vera Cruz with news of the abdication of Ferdinand VII in favor of Joseph Bonaparte and the departure of the Spanish royal family into imprisonment in France. Two days later, the news was known in Mexico...

  15. The Chaquetas Foiled

    On June 21, 1808, the ship Corza anchored in the harbor of Vera Cruz with news of the abdication of Ferdinand VII in favor of Joseph Bonaparte and the departure of the Spanish royal family into imprisonment in France. Two days later, the news was known in Mexico. News of the Bourbon...

  16. Napoleon Delays his Return from Elba

    What if instead of returning from exile the year after being exiled to Elba, Napoleon's return to France was delayed either by design or by coincidence for, say, five years? What would be the result of Napoleon landing in France in 1820 rather than 1815?

  17. Allusions

    I am Mesha, son of the Lord GOD, the king of Moab, the Dibonite. My father was king over Moab for thirty years, and I became king after my father. And I made this altar for the Lord in Jericho . . . because he has delivered me from all kings, and because he has made me look down on all my...

  18. Belgian Succession Question

    Hypothetically, if the future Albert I died young (before his accession in 1909), and more specifically before the birth of his first child (the future Leopold III, in 1901), who would succeed Leopold II?

  19. AHC: United Kingdom and France vs. Three Great Powers

    With a POD no earlier than 1900, is it possible for Great Britain and France to become embroiled in a conflict with a minimum of three Great Powers? Smaller nations may be involved on the side of the Double Entente or on that of their opponents, but absolutely no other Great Powers. The Great...

  20. Cervera Escapes to Cienfuegos: What Next?

    Assume for the sake of argument (I have figured out a plausible way for it to happen, in the context of a larger TL) that Cervera's squadron with the exception of the destroyers Pluton and Furor have successfully escaped Santiago on the date of the OTL Battle of Santiago without more than...
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