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Napoleon III does not invade Mexico. The funds that were used for the war are put towards investing in military technology, improving military training, and reforming the conscription system. The Luxembourg Crisis escalates and causes the Franco-Prussian war to occur in 1867. The war is short...

What would have been the outcome for Spain if the crisis of 1917 had been worse? For those who do not know, in 1917, despite the economic benefits that neutrality brought to Spain, the social and political situation was too tense, with a significant deterioration in the quality of life in urban...

While Moscow-Berlin Axis is a very popular and perhaps even overused trope in alternate history I have never saw a discussion about how it would affect elections in France and Spain during 1930s. So, the first PoD in my exact scenario is that Poles are even more successful during the...

Hello, y'all. I have a TL in the works which involves a surviving Spanish Empire (the Spanish Empire reforms itself and decentralizes). What are some name ideas for a "Spanish Commonwealth of Nations" or a "Spanish Federation"?

Franco was in power from the 1930s literally until the day he died. Aside from being officially neutral in WW2, why did he outlast the other dictators of his era?

As it says on the tin in one of the many Napoleonic war books that I have read over the years, in one of these mighty tomes there was a small paragraph about the possibility of the Spanish throne being offered to Lord Wellington. As events unfolded, no offer was made and he later on became...

In a political website, men are discussing the Koreans and the people of Takasago being under the rule of People’s Republic of Japan. Boy A: Did you saw the news that the Communist Japanese are sterilising and torturing Koreans and Taiwanese. Boy B: I doubt if the Japanese are torturing and...

Who Dares Wins: Britain’s War of 1982-83 By: History Foundation of Europe Sarthak Bikram Panta LONDON © 2021 Chapter 1: The Fortress of Britain Modern Day Gibraltar Since the age of the Ancient Greeks, Gibraltar has had an eventful history. Considered to have been the site of the Pillars of...

So let’s say Germany wins WW1 in 1916 because Italy joined the Central Powers a year earlier. What would the effects of this be on the Spanish Civil War? Would it still happen?

On 1661, Maniago, Almazan and Malong would have won against the Spanish with the help of the rest of the rest of the Natives of Northern Luzon forcing the Spanish to retreat South. The major factor that made Maniago’s victory possible was the continued vitality of the population that would...

What if Ferdinand VII had accepted the position of King of Mexico when it was offered to him, establishing a personal union between Mexico and Spain? What would be the impacts on Spanish and Mexican politics? How would it affect the rest of the Latin American revolutions? Could the Mexican model...

Less than two months after becoming king of Spain for the first time, Ferdinand VII and his deposed father, Charles IV, were called upon by Napoleon to go to Bayonne to, officially, sort out the situation that was developing as a result of the Tumult of Aranjuez and the Dos de Mayo Uprising...

After the great Spanish victory at Bailén, which resulted in the surrender of almost 20.000 French troops and the collapse of their position in the Iberian Peninsula, Napoleon launched a massive offensive involving more than 250.000 soldiers. The Spanish army, vastly outnumbered on the...

Juan, Prince of Asturias dies in the January of 1491 of an illness not recognized. That would leave his elder sister Isabel of Aragon as heir-presumptive to the thrones Castile and Aragon with Juana as second in line. In this universe, Isabel and Ferdinand decided to stop waiting and arrange...

Spain invaded Portugal three times in 1762 as a part of the Seven Years' War, but their attempts to conquer their smaller neighbor failed miserably thanks to the scorched earth and guerrilla tactics adopted by the Portuguese. What if the invaders were able to protect their supply lines more...

On April 1521, Magellan expedition would be washed north west from Guam to a certain island which was green for him in which he would call as The land of Savages which would be later be known as Formosa to the Portuguese where in some of his own crew would die being killed by the natives, he...

This is a WI of the Spain and the Habsburgs History with very y possibilities that I thought worth to explore... What would have been the consequences both for Spain and Europe of the last male Spanish Habsburg heir (the future Carlos ll of Spain). Either being still born or as at the time...

Philip would arrive in Burgundy, he would remarry to Margaret of Brandenburg-Ansbach securing ties with the Hohenzollerns in Brandenburg. Philip would arrive in Burgundy only to find his own son, Charles, Archduke of Austria dead as well due to an illness leaving behind daughters in his own...

Before You Read This is an alternate history series documenting the creation and the conflicts surrounding The former colonies of a much more powerful, rich and democratic Spanish Empire. How these more stable and established States came to build their national mythos, and build a new...

During the War of Portuguese Succession, there were many claimants for the Portuguese Throne, but two major ones. First was being Philip II of Spain, the eventually winner which create the Iberian Union, and António, Prior of Crato, an illegitimate grandson of Manuel I of Portugal. However...