austria

As the title says, what if the Austro-Hungarians adopt English as the command language in their common army? Let's say, it happen somewhere between 1890 and 1900. What are your thoughts? How does it influence the military performance and Austria-Hungary in general?

So in the fall of 1791, the balance of opinion in the Legislative Assembly in Paris was against the war party, the Brissotins. While the Royal reputation was in the toilet, Louis' docility to anti emigre legislation had taken the wind out of the pro war sails, and the froth of anger was dying...

In an alternate scenario, where Charles I of Austria was allowed to stay in power, and he reforms the crumbling Austria-Hungary, into the United States of Greater Austria (Wilson is ignored even more ITTL). The New Federation has to pay a debt like Germany. (NOTE: Polish and Romanian territory...

The world is Burning, Nationalist Marxism has been growing while the Monarchies die in the flames of revolution, the order of old is dying and revolutionaries war over the corpses of the dying empires, why did this come ahead. It all started with the death of one man Otto Von Bismarck...

Say Archduke Sigismund Francis lives 10 years longer and has surviving kids with Hedwig of Palatinate-Sulzbach, say one surviving son (Sigismund Leopold, b. 1668) and two daughters (Claudia Amalia b. 1671 and Maria Isabella b. 1673). So Tirolean Habsburg line continues. In such case Leopold...

The 19th century was a pretty bad century for the Habsburgs and they didn't even last 20 years in the 20th. I guess the easiest way to change the challenges Austria faces is changing the outcome of the congress of vienna which set the tone for the following century and redesigned the map of...

For a POD, let's say that Stanisław I Leszczyński dies a year earlier, than August II does and August III is elected virtually unopposed. Would the Russo-Turkish war still happen? Would it begin earlier? The main problem if the Russian campaigns were the logistics, so the results there wouldn't...

Well I was thinking about different German centered TLs and the cliche stuff always focuses on Germany being able to fullfill its imperial ambitions, either in WW1 or WW2. (Don't get me wrong, there are some very well done TLs and some stuff that doesn't fall into this category.) In this...

So, i was watching the most recent vid by Kings and Generals, and something crossed my mind... What if Napoleon's forces had been more successful in the earliest stages of the Peninsular War (perhaps through victory at Vimeiro, or later victories at Bailén and Zaragossa), thus dissuading the...

As the title says, suppose that somehow the Habsburg established Ostend Company were to survive (and begin to thrive). Originally it might be little more than a vanity project (I've never seen records for its returns in its brief existence, and since the British/Dutch made its closure...

Imagining the following scenario = In 1894 Franz Ferdinand visited the English court. Some time ago I read that Maud was thought to be a suitable candidate for him. If Franz Ferdinand married Maud in 1894, and shortly thereafter inherited the throne (1896?), How would that be good for relations...

What happens if the Austrian NSDAP actually mansges to produce somewhat coherent plans? Their initial Stoßtrupp manages to kill/capture the whole government and not only Dollfuß like IOTL. In their subsequent actions they manage to cut communications and to spread even more chaos. All in all...

A recent post i made made want to ask this question. We know that austrians have always considered themselves german but in recent times they do not anymore. A theory of mine is that after ww2 being german wasn't Ideal for obvious reasons, What are your toughts?

Besides son Maximilian, later Holy Roman Emperor, and Kunigunde, Duchess of Bavaria, Emperor Frederick III and his wife Eleanor of Portugal had 3 children who died young-Christoph (born in 1455), Helene (b. 1460) and Johann (b. 1466). So what if they all at least outlive their father (so they'd...

Besides his niece? I mean, the guy succeeds to the highest secular rank in Christendom in 1657, and I could imagine that for a time, there were hopes that he'd marry Maria Teresa of Spain (OTL queen of France). That takes us through to 1660 when she marries Louis XIV. Felipe IV didn't want to...

Basically what the tin says.For a very different 20th century I was thinking about a world without A-H. An obvious POD might be an even more disastrous 1866 but I am open to other suggestions. I would also love it if we explore the consequences a little bit.

16th century was extremaly lucky for House of Habsburg-they get thrones of all Iberian Kingdoms, Bohemia and Hungary, were also close to get Polish and English throne in addition. Let's see what would happen with that chain of lucky events reversed and Habsburgs reduced back to Austria. One...

Based on the popular theory that Peter the Great's last words were to name Anna Petrovna his rightful heir (which he failed to get out in time) I present a basic theory of alternate history mainly focusing on the result of the 7 years war, and hope to expand from there. The essential concept is...

Since I graduated last year, I have had this idea for a timeline based on a Crimean War which continued on for longer and ultimately leads to Russia losing its Great Power status. My primary sources for my work, and now this timeline Winfried Baumgarts was mainly “The Crimean War 1853 - 1856”...

So, for whatever reason Bismarck is convinced to annex the german parts of Austria into Germany (maybe the king forces him to accept it or something, it really doesn't matter). To prevent rhe backlash that surely would come from neighboring nations if such thing happened, he tries to involve as...