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  1. WI: The battle of Gettysburg never starts, how does the rest of the campaign play out?

    I have seen an interesting description of what Reynolds actual orders were. Meade didn't know where Lee's forces were and didn't have good maps of the area. Reynolds was to take his wing of the army and post it in position to force Lee to concentrate in response. There is a specific term for...

  2. what if Henry Ford never founded Ford?

    Ford didn't invent the assembly line/mass production. He applied an existing technique to the automobile industry. His more radical but subtle innovation was increasing his workers' pay enough so that they could buy their own cars.

  3. What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    Different reasons. The basic reason is most colonies were not really self-sufficient and were dependent on the empire for protection. Jamaica is an example of this. Quebec didn't join the rebellion for various reasons. A lot of Loyalists were settled in Canada after the end of the war. Australia...

  4. What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    There was a difference between Company rule and direct Imperial rule.

  5. What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    They were three country sized colonial possessions. Victoria was proclaimed Empress in 1877, India was independent 70 years later.

  6. What Is Your Opinion of King Henry V?

    The critical point is that Henry V died before the King of France died. That part of the HYW is actually a French Civil War. The two factions, Armangac and Burgundy, hated each other so much that each faction preferred Henry to be king instead of the other faction. If Henry lives a normal span...

  7. What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    Britain was great at building an empire and bad at keeping it. America, Ireland, and India all rebelled for similar reasons. Britain viewed colonies as sources of revenue to be exploited for domestic interests instead of assets to be cultivated.

  8. What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    The premise of the post is Britain mishandling the Settlement. Britain has a history of bungling these situations. This is a very different situation the Post Civil War America. Britain is a great power in competition with peers larger than it. Its North American Empire has gone from a source of...

  9. What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    Funny thing about the American Revolution is the best outcome for France was a British victory. If Britain crushes the rebellion, it has to manage a continent with a substantially hostile population. Instead of a revenue producing asset, America is an expense in both money and manpower.

  10. AHC: Anti-Federalists and the Anti-Administration Party Dominate Early America

    Jefferson was bad at government but very good at politics.

  11. AHC: Anti-Federalists and the Anti-Administration Party Dominate Early America

    You want to look at the difference between Washington and Jefferson. Washington gave up being a planter and became a farmer. He stopped growing tobacco and diversified. He grew grain, built a distillery, and looked at other crops that didn't deplete the soil. Jefferson stayed a planter and died...

  12. AHC: Anti-Federalists and the Anti-Administration Party Dominate Early America

    Which part and how so?

  13. AHC: Anti-Federalists and the Anti-Administration Party Dominate Early America

    Thomas Jefferson was born among the wealthiest men in America and died a debtor. If you look at Plantation economics of the time, the planters were under control of their English factors. The factors set the price planters received for tobacco. They also sold the planters goods, setting the...

  14. AHC: Anti-Federalists and the Anti-Administration Party Dominate Early America

    If you are using Thomas Jefferson as your guide for economics, you have a problem. Jefferson was born wealthy, the beneficiary of the slave plantation system. He was hostile to trade and industry. Hamilton was born poor. He understood that trade and industry provided opportunity. He also...

  15. AHC: Anti-Federalists and the Anti-Administration Party Dominate Early America

    Why? Is this a practical objection or a theoretical one?

  16. AHC: Anti-Federalists and the Anti-Administration Party Dominate Early America

    You need to look at the actual political dynamics of the 1780s and 1790s. The Confederation Government was ineffective. State currencies were inflationary. You had effective trade wars between states. New Jersey was, famously, "A keg tapped at both ends." As both New York and Pennsylvania...

  17. Why were the Wehrmacht's logistics so bad?

    Richardson has it right but his observation is incomplete. Germany, and Prussia before it, was excellent at Tactics and Operations, and very bad at strategy. This lead to the General Staff making strategically disastrous decisions for momentary tactical reasons. The Imperial German government...

  18. Manufacturing in the South=earlier abolition of slavery?

    Read Jefferson's account of the use of slaves in a nail factory. He talks about the investment return on slaves in that context.

  19. American civil war delayed until 1869, what are the consequences?

    This thread is missing something important. Part of the pressure of the 1850s that lead to the Republican victory in 1860 was the fugitive slave law. The Federal government was compelling free states to assist in the capture and return of escaped slaves. If the Dems win in 1860 and 1864, you...

  20. If the 1986 Tax Reform Act takes real estate down a notch as a speculative investment, no 2008 financial institution near-collapse? ?

    @Dancing Fool 2008 had nothing to do with the 1986 tax reform. Among other things, the seeds of 2008 start with the Y2K scare. The Fed put a lot of money into the system and kept interest rates artificially low. A lot of that money went into asset inflation, both stock market and real estate...
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