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  1. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Part 168

    London, May 18th, 1945 The Labour party withdrew support from the national government under Winston Churchill. The British parliament would be dissolved a month later as elections, the first in a decade would be organized for early July. Madrid, May 20th, 1945 The provisional government of...
  2. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    I'm known to have quipped that unlike an Italian I can read all the old stuff in Saint Mark... since I can read the half of the stuff written in Greek. :openedeyewink:
  3. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    Melus of Bari who happened to be an enemy of the empire? Dunno there seems to me that aristocracy had a few reasons to be distrustful. During Manuel's reign you had a Norman invasion of the empire, allied German crusaders ending up fighting imperial troops to stop their looting, French...
  4. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Well Tito DID conduct a fair bit of ethnogenesis. However he was not operating in a complete vacuum. It's not as if Tito ordered 900,000 strongly nationalistic Bulgarians to switch national identity and they did overnight. But by the same token it is not as if the population that received the...
  5. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    The successor is Theodore II. Or properly speaking Theodore II Doukas Vatatzes Lascaris. Adrienne the elder is 72, notably her OTL counterpart died at around 45... but I'm fond of her and she has had a better life TTL. Agnes is 36 at the moment. Of the other big players Alexios Gryphon is 58...
  6. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    "And then there was none" That would be... why spoilers! Arguably that's hardly surprising... And one notes its hardly just Alewites and Syrian Arabs... Let me see... no comments. Besides the fact Assyrians proclaimed independence back in 1941 and it remains in limbo since then. But now the...
  7. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head
    Threadmarks: Part 70

    Rhodes. January 6th, 1366 Both the besiegers and the besieged were celebrating the day of the epiphany. Or nearly everyone was doing so as 300 Hospitaller knights and men at arms were instead taking one of the supposedly closed underground passages into the fortress, it helped still having at...
  8. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    53% of the population of the Lascarid state was last part of the empire in 1071. Which makes it shall we say a different beast than the post-1204 Byzantine successor states? Of which it is one but it is more than that. And given when all this is happening...
  9. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    By now it's not the first time the empire fought in alliance with Venice against someone else. And its almost a century since the Lascarids lost the purple... A comprehensible but costly one. Sicily has lost over a third of the galleys it had in the stocks in the battles of 1365 and a smaller...
  10. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    One against the Cretan rebels and anyone supporting them technically... which actually is what he did in OTL. That TTL there is someone actually supporting the Cretans... why that's a different matter. I wouldn't place bets he was winning. True Visconti was defeated in the battle of Solara...
  11. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    Which is the one true empire? Because one notes Alexandros II is not claiming to be basileus of the Romans...
  12. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    Hint. It did not work in real life.
  13. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Part 167 Finis Germaniae

    Germany, April 20th, 1945 Nuremberg was captured by the US 7th Army, which then turned its advance southwards towards Munich. The next date the German forces encircled in Ruhr would surrender to the Anglo-Americans with 317,000 Germans going into captivity. On the 22nd the 7th Army would cross...
  14. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    No reason they don't... Yugoslavia has also a massive, well armed communist army in contact with Soviet controlled territory. Italy has certainly had a more credible military performance... Me too! That is going to be... how to put it politely? Interesting to behold. The Yugoslavs, of united...
  15. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head
    Threadmarks: Part 69

    Venice, January 1365 With disaster threatening the republic underwent drastic measures to deal with the Hungarians and Sicilians. Mass conscription was instituted and wealthy citizens obliged to provide forced loans to finance the war effort. Thanks to these measures 37 new galleys had been...
  16. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Part 166

    Slovakia, March 25th, 1945 The Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front and the Romanian 1st and 4th Armies launched a new offensive to liberate Brno and Bratislava. Iwo Jima, March 26th, 1945 After five weeks of fighting the island was finally cleared of Japanese defenders. A handful of Japanese holdouts...
  17. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    That's used as shorthand for lost crews usuallyin the narrative. Some ships will be damaged/wrecked/burned down of course. But the ship usually is worth little in comparison to the crew. Even in purely economic terms a galley cost about 2,300 ducats... the next century when it had cannons and...
  18. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    The numbers do not fit IMO. OTL the Venetians did send 33 galleys and obviously this did not include either Cretan ones, Crete was in revolt, nor Dalmatian ones, Dalmatia had already been lost. So if you want to look to the question from first principles first if we know that the Venetian...
  19. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head
    Threadmarks: Part 68

    Adrianople, December 1363 Sultan Murad I moved the capital of the Ottoman state to Adrianople from Bursa, a sign of the increasing importance the Ottomans were now placing to Europe, where earlier in the year the Ottomans had captured Philippoulolis given away to the Bulgarians during the...
  20. Lascaris

    The eagle's left head

    But a central tenet of the new Sicily is that Alexandros I based his power on said peasant scum because their betters were either supporting his rivals or thinking they could be his rivals themselves. Now his grandson will build an army against his very power base? :angel: Now Alexandros I...
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