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  1. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    The problem, for the Bourbons, is that no matter how much they try to indoctrinate l'Aiglon into royalism, what is the most they can offer him? To be a minister? Advisor to the King? The Bonapartistes will offer him his father's throne. The Bourbons can't compete with that ... and...

  2. Europe never dominates the world

    How would they have not fought France? France would not tolerate being surrounded by Habsburg territory. The only way I can see the two kingdoms not becoming enemies would be for the inheritance of Charles V to be different, with everything north of the Pyrenees given to the Austrian...

  3. Britain as (near) Sole colonizer of Africa?

    IOTL the French economy managed to recover relatively quickly, despite that France had to pay the 700 million franc indemnity and the cost of the foreign occupation. ITTL those do not happen, and the country has substantially greater coal and iron resources. Napoléon moreover was aware that...

  4. Britain as (near) Sole colonizer of Africa?

    In peacetime, the French empire will rapidly industrialize, assuming we are talking about the "natural borders" that include Belgium and the west Rhineland.

  5. From Cape Tiburon to Cape Samaná - A United Hispaniola Timeline

    This happened IOTL.

  6. WI: American & Australian football never split from Rugby?

    I think a couple of caveats apply. First, many people consider basketball their 2nd or 3rd favorite sport, but in few countries (if any) it the most popular sport, whereas the various codes of rugby/gridiron are the most popular in several countries (particularly in the anglosphere). Second...

  7. Ethnic makeup of Mesopotamia and Levant without Islam

    This seems like good news for the Greek language, which can remain the lingua franca of the region, and may eventually become the vernacular language. Greek had the great prestige of being associated with both the emperors in Constantinople and with the New Testament, of which it was the...

  8. What if a different Louis XIV, Louis the Builder, not Louis the Fighter?

    Disagree, I think it's on topic. Any French king in this century will fight some wars, that is inevitable due to the country's geo-strategic position. But the wars do not need to be as long and costly for the kingdom. Better diplomacy can lead to Louis focusing on his kingdom's primary...

  9. What if a different Louis XIV, Louis the Builder, not Louis the Fighter?

    You could still have the war but have it be a strictly Bourbon-Habsburg conflict. England and the Netherlands were initially willing to accept Philippe d'Anjou as the Spanish heir as they did not want another war, but Louis took positions that antagonized them. Recognizing James Stuart as the...

  10. WI: American & Australian football never split from Rugby?

    American football is, by a huge margin, the most popular spectator sport in the USA. If you combine it with the audiences that the rugby codes get, their combined audience should surpass that of basketball, which is watched in a lot of countries, but is almost never the top sport. I think...

  11. WI: Major Bourbon Victory in the American Revolutionary War

    I'm not sure about this. In this era, the Lesser Antilles mostly had Catholic French settlers, regardless of their ownership. (Even today, over two centuries later, many on these islands speak Antillean creole.) Some accommodation might be needed for the relatively small Protestant population...

  12. WI: Major Bourbon Victory in the American Revolutionary War

    That would be a very tough decision for them. I think the former would be worse still because it could pose an existential threat, but the loss of Jamaica would hurt the royal treasury much more.

  13. Adoption of Cyrillic in the West and/or Latin alphabet in Novgorod at the Reformation

    And this would be counter-productive given that Protestants emphasized individual reading of the Bible.

  14. WI: Major Bourbon Victory in the American Revolutionary War

    Jamaica was extremely valuable to the British, as much as Saint-Domingue to the French. It produced more income than the 13 colonies did. I think they would make concessions elsewhere in the peace, which might be quite painful, in order to regain it.

  15. Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    Well yes, I don't mean to suggest that the POD is the 1864 election itself, but that the path to CSA independence is to somehow keep the war a stalemate until the election and have Lincoln lose. It is a difficult path for them.

  16. Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    Maybe - there could certainly be tensions between the two nations. But would Americans actually want to conquer the CSA? If you are concerned with illegal immigration, you probably do not want to conquer the the source country.

  17. Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    The problem with this thinking is that the CSA can only realistically win the war if the USA decides that it is not worth fighting anymore. This would probably be due to Lincoln losing re-election in 1864. If the American public has decided, via the 1864 election, that it wants a negotiated...

  18. WI: Gadsden Purchase not tweaked

    The map suggests that Mexico would still have a land connection to Baja California. Even if not, they could sail across the Gulf of California.

  19. Reputation of Napoleon in surviving 2nd Empire?

    Republicanism in general might not have become as popular. IOTL it was the Third Republic that demonstrated that it was a viable path for a European state to follow. Prior to 1870, France's two republican régimes had been short-lived and unstable. France was evolving toward a...

  20. Dutch Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic

    Do you mean that it would still be under Dutch rule today? I would doubt that. Note that there is also the example of Suriname, which the Dutch relinquished.
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