schleswig-holstein

I’m playing around with a 19th century Scandinavia scenario, which may or may not include the house of Augustenburg gaining the Swedish throne - and possibly the Norwegian and Danish ones down the line as well. This would of course exclude the Glücksburg line from succession. Now in otl...

After the 1809 revolution in Sweden, the new king was childless and an adoptive heir was sought. The consensus candidate, Charles August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg_Augustenburg, ultimately died of a stroke when he fell from his horse. After this, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of the more...

The danish kings had tried to tie the Duchy of Schleswig for centuries, never really succeeding partly due to influence of Holsatian nobles wanting it too. Then in 1460 when Adolf VIII died King Christian suddenly got the opportunity to become Duke, but only under the condition that the Duchy...

One day I started to think about the two world wars. Mainly World war 1. So when I was on the page, I saw the thread of "What if the American civil war turned into a world war?" And that really got me interested in alternate world wars. Earlier or later than it's specific timeline. I'm mainly...

During the first schleswig war, prusso-german forces were advancing through danish Jutland. However, they were stopped short by the danes after their wave of advancements. During this bogging-down, the european powers took opportunity to make condemnations to the prussians and the...