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  1. Spanish Victory in Spanish-American War

    In OTL, the main Spanish fleet, against the advice of its commander, Admiral Cervera, was sent to the West Indies to confront US forces. At this time, the fleet consisted of the three armored cruisers of the Infanta Maria Teresa class plus the armored cruiser Cristobal Colon, plus two...

  2. Why was there no Baltic Union after WWI?

    Given the scale of Russia, why was there never an impetus to a federal union of Baltic States? They seem to have arranged their borders fairly peaceably - why not some sort of formal arrangement? Or, a Finland-Estonia union? Or even a Finland-Baltic Union? None of these even seem to have...

  3. Veranda of Mecca: A Free Aceh

    Aceh was one of the oldest and most potent Sumatran states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Aceh It's independence was desired by Britain against the Dutch, until 1873 when a convention was signed withdrawing British support in exchange for concessions elsewhere. The Dutch...

  4. White Siberia - Russian Civil War

    In OTL, the situation in the Russian Civil War was created by a bizarre set of circumstances. A Czech Legion had been created by the Tsar to serve against Austria-Hungary. After the Revolution, the Czechs negotiated with the Bolsheviks access across Siberia to Vladivostok from whence they...

  5. The Greater Republic of Central America and the Nicaraguan Canal

    When independence was gained from Spain, the five Central American countries were originally in a federal union, which lasted a few years and broke up - but there were many attempts to revive it and they all retained symbolically, elements of the federal flag in their own flags. In 1896...

  6. Alternate South Africa

    In the TL I'm working on, Africa is quite different. In this TL, the British don't occupy Egypt and thus have a much stronger diplomatic hand elsewhere, thus no German colonies in Africa (which I think would actually be better for Germany), as well as no French Tunis. The Scramble is...

  7. AH Challenge: Emperor Sun Yat Sen of the USA

    :rolleyes:

  8. 1453: The Movie

    This has come up before, but why on earth has nobody ever made a movie about the Siege of Constantinople? Has there ever been anything that would make a better movie? The Last Roman Emperor, ships rowing overland, monster cannon, Janissaries, Sultans and Popes and everyone in weird tangled...

  9. WWI Air Force OOBs

    Does anyone have a link to anything that lists OOBs for anyone at all in WWI? I'm trying to design an ATL Ottoman Air Force - I have specs and requirements drawn up for missions and planes, but I have no idea what ratio was between fighters, bombers, recon, ground attack, etc. planes was or...

  10. WWI Aircraft Design

    Does anyone have a design program for WWI aircraft, ala SpringSharp (for ships)? I would like to design an Ottoman Air Force, but I'm not sure how to begin. I guess I could just use foreign designs, but that's not as fun.

  11. Fragmentation of the CSA

    One thing you never really see in CSA-wins TLs is further splintering of the Confederacy. Why is this? Doesn't it follow that a more loosely-bunched group of states that broke away in the first place might find cause to go off in their own directions later? Texas for instance, or later on...

  12. The Ottomans and the Massacre of Colonel Flatter's Mission

    Those of you who are Victorian enthusiasts, especially of the explorers, you'll be familiar with the mission of Franch Colonel Paul Flatters. Otherwise, it's an undeservedly obscure topic, as it's rather important to the history of Africa. In 1880, Flatters embarked on a mission to open up...

  13. Meerkat Cavalry

    What if everyone stopped studying and discussing history and instead spent the time training meerkats to be cavalry steeds? Would it have stopped the Holocaust and caused Greece to annex the Aegean coast of Anatolia and Constantinople?

  14. Ottoman Victory in 1877-78 War - Need Help

    I'm writing a TL in which the Ottomans "win" this war. In OTL, the Russians were very overconfident, and invaded with an insufficient number of troops, and underestimated the quality of the Ottoman army, which was very experienced, and had just totally overhauled its organization and rearmed...

  15. Ottoman Balkans Population Map

    Here is a map of the population of the Ottoman Balkans by subprovince that I painstakingly assembled, which I think is pretty interesting, and opens a lot of AH channels as well. I did this as research for a TL that I'm working on with a different outcome of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-78 and...

  16. The Muslim Majority in Ottoman Europe

    On a long and boring conference call, I calculated the proportion of the population of what was Ottoman Europe in 1876 is Muslim today. I took all the territory of the empire and used Wikipedia to determine the populations and the % Muslim - when necessary, I delved into individual districts...

  17. Reasons Why the Muslim World Didn't Industrialize

    This is for Ibn Warraq. A bit terse, but I'm a bit pressed for time. - No rivers. There are rivers, but only the Tigris and Nile are useful for transport. Mid Eastern rivers are two slow to provide water power, which was the primary source of energy for early industry. - No forests...

  18. Scottish Perfidy in Poyais

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poyais Maybe you all already know about this, but I just came across it while reading Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt by David Landes. Amazing that this guy escaped this unpunished, given the number of lives lost...

  19. Ottoman-Bulgarian Dual Monarchy

    After the deposition of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria in 1886, Europe was plunged into yet another Balkan crisis, as the Russians demanded that the Sultan occupy Eastern Rumelia and nominate a new Prince, and generally used the situation to struggle with Britain to establish a protectorate over...

  20. Star Wars PODs: Episode I

    WI when Qui-gon radioed back to the ship to ask Obi-Wan if he found anything of value, and Obi-Wan replied, "No, nothing of value, just our provisions, AND THE QUEEN'S WARDROBE", there had been a five-year-old child present who could have pointed out "each of those outfits is crusted with gems...
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