carlism

What if the Carlists won the First Carlist War (1833-1839) and Prince Carlos became king Carlos V. What would be the colonial consequences of this? Will Spain be more involved in the Scramble for Africa or in Asia or will they do more in the New World with Mexico or something? And thus: will...

Carlism is a Spanish catholic monarchism moviment as you probably know, supporting a return for tradition and the appointment of the Carlist branch of the house of Bourbon to power in Spain Carlism never representated most of the spanish population, and on the civil wars they fought they always...

Assuming the Carlists win the First Carlist War, what would it take for the Carlists to maintain their grip on power while being able to help the devastated Spain rebuild itself? Isabella II's reign in otl was filled with instability, intrigue, and scandals which saw her run out of Spain...

What if, with a POD of 1830s, the Carlists beat the Liberals, and the Isabella family flees into exile in Britain, while the Carlist king, Carlos de Borbón, now Carlos V, becomes King. Now that the Carlists control Spain, what of her once mighty, colonial empire, now reduced to only Cuba...

Challenge: with a POD from 1830s, make the Carlists succeed in taking the throne of Spain, and turning it to a great power, becoming a major colonizing Power in Africa and Asia (and maybe the West Indies and Latin America), and becoming a major player in the world.

So, assume that Spain after Napoleon's departure manages to maintain control over most of its Latin American colonies, through a succession of factors such as José de San Martin's Army of the Andes failing to liberate Chile, Simon Bolivar either being crushed early or confined to Venezuela, and...

What if the Carlist won the First war, and Charles V becomes the New King of the Spanish Empire. What are some of the consequences if the Carlists won the war?

Not many people know this about the Spanish Civil War, and it's a fact that many history buffs can tend to forget, but in the beginning of the conflict it wasn't Francisco Franco who was tapped to lead the Nationalist Forces, rather it was Marshal Jose Sanjurjo a Spanish general who played a key...

Jaime III, king of Spain Introduction. The celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the coronation of Carlos V (1) in 1914 were clouded by the ghost of the incomming Great European War. In spite of that, the conmemoration of the arrival of the first king of the Carlist branch to the Spanish...