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  1. A Stroke Separated the Swedish and Schleswig Successions?

    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...
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    WI: Napoleon defeated and captured at Lützen

    What if Napoleon Bonaparte had been defeated at the Battle Of Lützen (May 1813)? How likely is he to be captured by Coalition forces? Is he likely to be executed? What about Frederick Augustus? Will he be able to maintain his enlarged Saxony? Will he be able to keep his polish fiefdom alive? And...

  3. The Ballet of Europe: Pas de deux for a nice-legged Gascon sergeant and a little Corsican corporal

    Prologue Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow was watching the battle unfolding under his eyes with what came close to utter satisfaction. In the privacy of his own mind and only there, he admitted that, although a dedicated army reformer, he had been deathly afraid of moving away from the...
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