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  1. Umbric Man

    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    No one shall get straight line borders. Not even Vatican City.
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    Would the Thirteen Colonies have unified into a single political entity even if they still remained British?

    I can try to defend myself saying they meant the Thirteen themselves.... :D But, there was another unifying point to said Thirteen - they were all Anglo-founded (outside NY, which was at least in claimed English territory) settler colonies, the only mainland English colonies, and together...
  3. Umbric Man

    Would the Thirteen Colonies have unified into a single political entity even if they still remained British?

    I'm gonna buck up and say yes they could have: colonial unions were being proposed as early as 1697 by William Penn of all people (he wanted New York as capital) and such proposals continued sporadically to the Big One of the 1754 Albany Plan. We also saw Ben Franklin start to make some inroads...
  4. Umbric Man

    Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire

    The Spanish-speaking-and-settled areas back in 1846 very roughly match where Hispanic blood and culture form majorities or pluralities today: -Texas below the TX-Colorado River -Oklahoma panhandle -Kansas below the Arkansas River -Colorado below the Arkansas River and its San Luis Valley inside...
  5. Umbric Man

    The United States with a British Deep South

    Whatever the exact borders, the less southern colonies the USA holds still ironically means less Francophilia, since the south from Virginia downward adored France while the north, especially New England, were the hotbeds of Anglophilia. Granted, keeping NC and VA definitely keeps the bulk of...
  6. Umbric Man

    Divide to rule - northern states partition themselves for Senate and EC domination, post Civil War

    Ah, Kentucky was created from Virginia just like Maine from Mass, and was contiguous with Virginia, mountains or not. That West Virginia was not happy with Virginia itself I forgot of, though. It would possibly be seen as just a neo-Kentucky situation that finally happened later than it should have.
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    Divide to rule - northern states partition themselves for Senate and EC domination, post Civil War

    MA and the revival of New Plymouth! New York east of the Appalachians and Oswego River, "Genesee/Niagara" west of it. East and West Jersey, natch. East being original NJ so to speak. PA east of the Appalachians of course, "Allegheny/Westsylvania" west of them. Illinois as we know it was...
  8. Umbric Man

    WI: Total French Victory in the Seven Years War

    I believe France wanted an expedition to recapture Acadia in general and not just Louisbourg, albeit that may be the Le Clue expedition spoken of. In which case, if we assume it succeeds or at least Louisbourg is recaptured, and St. John's is conquered, then France would probably gun for the...
  9. Umbric Man

    Request Maps/Flags/Coats of Arms/Heraldry here, II

    YOU ARE THE BEST. Thank you so so so SO MUCH, AAAAAAAAAH.
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    What civilization or nation deserves to have its own TL?

    Seeing even small timelines on independent Hispano - Neomexicano, Californio, and Tejano - states would be interesting, since at least Francophone (Creole/Cajun alike) Louisiana timelines get some attention at least.
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    WI: Major Bourbon Victory in the American Revolutionary War

    Truth, though I do suspect a revived Royal Navy will still sweep them as much as it did the rest of the Caribbean the moment it can. I do want to say while it's possible to make Spain even more victorious, and even likely with such a POD, I cannot stress just how bad Charles IV and Ferdinand...
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    WI: Major Bourbon Victory in the American Revolutionary War

    I'd have to think in more detail on a lot of things but some things that strike me off the bat: -Spain already saw a bit of a revival post-ARW in gaining the Floridas and Minorca, and Charles III actually being a decent king trying to reform the Spanish state and empire. Gibraltar would be a...
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    Request Maps/Flags/Coats of Arms/Heraldry here, II

    Requesting the 44-star American flag design here (https://anthonysfineart.com/products/44-star-american-wyoming-flag) but in the modern Wikipedia png format they use for their flags.
  14. Umbric Man

    WI: America purchases Mexican lands in 1845 = No Mexican - American War

    I think it'd cause popular unrest in Mexico, even accounting that many of the Neomexicanos and Californios were decidedly not happy living under Mexican rule by that point. Indeed, once hostilities broke out, New Mexico tried to proclaim independence.... only for Kearney to conveniently march in...
  15. Umbric Man

    WI: Popham Colony Survives

    I have to imagine sooner or later it would get its own charter due to sheer distance. Plymouth Colony got one when it ended up settling in New England even though it was sailing under the Virginia Company's auspices (admittedly, it got blown into territory outside its suzereinity), this colony...
  16. Umbric Man

    What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?

    I’d like to see even a summary of a 1783-borders USA with the Floridas (for completeness sake) still become a genuine great power and prosperous haven for its citizens as it more or less did in OTL, but to the present day and explore butterflies otherwise. So in a way as much of the USA of...
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    WI Britain gets Florida circa 1713

    Perhaps, but they did carve out colonies from others like New Jersey and Pennsylvania from what was officially New York/New Netherland, Delaware from Pennsylvania, and OTL Georgia was carved out of officially South Carolinian land. Britain was not leery about splitting up its coastal strip into...
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    WI Britain gets Florida circa 1713

    True, I did forget. I can see Georgia still forming in TTL with the vast, empty-of-Europeans expanse of land between Charleston (even Beaufort, SC) and the repopulating-St. Augustine, much like North Carolina came to being between already-established South Carolina and Virginia. It would still...
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    WI Britain gets Florida circa 1713

    I really suspect that it'll become "the Fourteenth Colony". Spanish Florida was quite underpopulated even without the knowledge it got screwed over more in Queen Anne's War. I think we'll see a repeat of 1763 fifty years early: the remaining Spanish colonists leave for Cuba than live under a...
  20. Umbric Man

    AHC: Medieval Kingdom/Empire encompassing France and Spain

    I feel the two obvious answers are a surviving western Roman Empire or the Frankish Empire keeps on trucking into Iberia after the initial Spanish Marches.
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