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  1. French Win At Agincourt

    Without (I'm assuming) the prisoners' massacre, maybe plus a shift in English support to the Armagnacs, the French wouldn't hate everything English quite so much and for so long. Could also perhaps take the edge off French revanchism. And the longbow hardly needed to prove itself in 1415.

  2. AH Challenge: Sertorius' Republic survives

    An independent, Sertorian Hispania's best chance would likely be Sertorious's commanders obeying his orders to not directly engage the armies of Metellus Pius and Pompey in 76-75 BC - at the height of his power. Both Hirtuleius and, I think, Perpenna suffered massive losses in battles which...

  3. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    Agreed. Some of which is barbaric murder, some of which takes place in a conflict situation, and none of which is organised. Which doesn't absolve the colonists of their excesses. The Aborigines had every right to resort to armed conflict. But being worse at killing doesn't mean they become...

  4. WI: Guinea Remain an Overseas Province

    Very probably. And you likely have better infastructure, health, education...assuming that Guinea remaining Portuguese isn't part of a larger trend among African colonies, I imagine it would serve as something of a model, similar to how Botswana is often viewed as a model for southern Africa. Of...

  5. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    While you may disagree with my interpretation, I read that as a prediction, not a threat. They are arguing that the Aborigines, with their hunter-gatherer way of life, and the pastoralists cannot coexist on the same land. Which is rather questionable, the early generation of farmers managed by...

  6. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    I don’t doubt that these sorts of atrocities were perpetrated by some whites. However, they certainly don’t put genocide beyond a doubt; they only show that some whites behaved barbarically. They do not suggest that this was in any way normal behaviour on the part of the settlers, many of whom...

  7. WI: Guinea Remain an Overseas Province

    If it's an integral part of Portugal similar to French Guyane in France, then surely the Guineans - is that right? - will cause a major demographic shift; they're about 1 million strong and Portugal's population is only about 10 million. I'd guess more egalitarian but perhaps more...

  8. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    Yes, a greater proportion of Tasmanian Aborigines died than the proportion of Jews in the Holocaust (although there still remain a number of people descended from Tasmanian Aborigines). But it was not a genocide. It was primarily disease. The massacres played a much smaller part, were not an...

  9. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    They would probably enter parliament very easily. Unfortunately, it is probable they would follow Peter Garret's path, used to sell unpopular policies to the people they were supposed to appeal to. That's not to say a politically talented sportstar couldn't do well, mind.

  10. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    No, concerted means acting in concert. Obviously. Another way to say that is 'conspiring together'. Which patently wasn't the case. You're trying to make this debate revolve entirely around Windschuttle, and important though he is, he is at the more extreme end. I am putting forward a...

  11. Prince Albert is assassinated in 1840

    I thought Albert's early unpopularity was to a considerable degree due to him being a German princeling. Weren't there a lot of music hall songs and so on at about this time that were very uncomplementary about Germans? That's not to say they weren't equally derogatory to the French, etc. but...

  12. AH Challenge: War Monkeys

    Neither are chimpanzees.

  13. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    On reflection, I'd like to apologise for bringing up this whole debate, which was at best tangentially related to Melvin's challenge. The History Wars have been going on for a long time, will likely continue for a long time, and it's very unlikely that this will achieve anything but inflame...

  14. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    No, it was not concerted, unless you believe that all the colonists who perpetuated the massacres were plotting out their campaign together, or that everything happened on the orders of the colonial authorities. Both of which are ridiculous; read of the orders and policies given by the governor...

  15. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    I respectfully disagree. Doesn't the UN definition require an intent and positive action to physically destroy the group in question? Dispossession and marginalisation do not do so in themselves - and the large scale relocation initiated by the colonial authorities, I believe, were an attempt to...

  16. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    Consent may not be the best word, I grant you, but the relocation to Flinders Island was undertaken through agreements with tribal leaders, not brute force. Was there some degree of coercion? Very probably. A lack of alternative options available to the Aborigines. Yes. The fact remains that...

  17. Prince Albert is assassinated in 1840

    Could Albert perhaps die taking a bullet for Victoria? If so, might that lead to the British public taking a greater liking to Germans? Certainly it would make Albert something of martyr, and a very high bar being set for his descendents, and anyone who seeks to Victoria. Who might Princess...

  18. AH challenge: Aboriginal PM of Australia

    Rubbish. A few settlers may have attacked and killed a few aborigines without provokation, but most violent incidents occured in the context of real or perceived self-defence. Both sides were guilty of some aggression and the authorities attempted to reduce conflict and punish wrongdoers on both...

  19. WI Saladin & Richard the Lionheart had allowed a family member each to intermarry

    Yes, but he raised most of the money by selling land and titles - "I would sell London if I could find a buyer" - and extorting the rich. While it may indicate a lack of caring for England, it didn't impose quite as heavily on the common people as you imply - England was an extremely wealthy...

  20. WI Saladin & Richard the Lionheart had allowed a family member each to intermarry

    Saladin's commanders would have done pretty much anything for him. A lot of the Muslim rulers, however, were less than fond of him; partly jealousy, partly the way he prosecuted the war, and partly old animosities between the rulers - for instance, the Zengids. While Saladin was a great...
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