New AHC: Battles that Happened Otherwise

After a short but bitter siege Mafeking falls to the encircling Boers. The British garrison commander Robert Baden-Powell is killed during the final Boer assault.

The 2nd Boer War lasts a few weeks longer and whilst the heroic Baden-Powell is remembered for a few years he soon fades into obscurity. There is no Scouting movement although something similar might be thought up.

Battle of Ashingdon 1016 - Danes(Cnut) vs Anglo Saxons (Edmund Ironside)
 
Edmund Ironside become king of all England, Cnut and all of other Danes are expelled out of England, OTL Edward the Exile become heir to the throne. However, the Anglo-Saxons were still doomed when Normans came decades later.
Battle of Cannae, 216 BC, Romans vs Carthaginians.
 
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Yeah.... Aparently people are getting too mixed up, we need to make a better system about who goes first...

Alright then...I tend to agree with "claim first before posting", but it's a bit weird if we claiming for only one battle...
So how about this, we must mention three battles with following rules:
-1st battle: 500 BC-500 AD
-2nd battle: 500 AD-1500 AD
-3rd battle: 1500 AD-1900 AD
And, yes, we must claim first before posting...
How about that...?
 
Alright then...I tend to agree with "claim first before posting", but it's a bit weird if we claiming for only one battle...
So how about this, we must mention three battles with following rules:
-1st battle: 500 BC-500 AD
-2nd battle: 500 AD-1500 AD
-3rd battle: 1500 AD-1900 AD
And, yes, we must claim first before posting...
How about that...?

Yeah that's a good idea hope you get more comments Rex :)
 
Well, maybe I should go first...
(just in case someone interested...)
1. Battle of Cannae, 216 BC, Romans vs Carthaginians
2. Battle of Tours, 732 AD, Franks vs Moors
3. Battle of Waterloo, 1815 AD, British and Prussians vs French
 
1st: Romans defeat Hannibal, crush his army and kill Hannibal himself. With Hannibal gone, the Romans destroy Carthage once and for all.

2nd: The Moors destroy the franks and begin the conquest of france. after france they overrun germany and start to look at britian. Britian stands alone!

3rd: Napoleon defeats the prussians and the english. The Napoleonic wars restart and plunge europe into a few more years of war. as for the outcome, its anyone's guess.

my turn

1st: Battle of Alesia 52 b.c. Caesar vs Vercingetorix
2nd: Battle of Falkirk 1298 a.d. Wallace vs Edward I
3rd: Battle of Sedan 1870 Napoleon III vs Moltke
 
1. Both Caesar and Anthony was killed at Alesia, the entire Roman forces in Gaul withdrawn to Italy. Pompey was declared as dictator for life by the Senate, and set out to re-conquer Gaul. He succeed, but then his oldest son, Gnaeus, and Pompey himself were assasinated by his political enemies at Rome. His youngest son, Sextus Pompeius, defeat the assasins and then hailed as Augustus by the Senate, thus becoming the first Emperor of Rome.
2. Edward I was killed at Falkirk, while a few remnants of his army manage to escape. English parliaments meet Scottish representatives, and Treaty of Scottish Independence was signed. William Wallace crowned as King William I of Scotland.
3. Napoleon III pursued the Prussian army deep into Kingdom of Prussia, and went to besiege the capital, Berlin. Kingdom of Prussia was dissolved, delaying the unification of Germany for many years to come. Once again, Napoleonic War erupted in Europe...

Now...
1. Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC, Greeks vs Persians
2. Siege of Orleans, 1428 AD, English vs French
3. Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775 AD, British vs Americans
 
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