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Place In the Sun: What If Italy Joined the Central Powers? (1.0)
- Thread starter Kaiser Wilhelm the Tenth
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Rattenfänger von Memphis
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Kaiser Wilhelm the Tenth, I have really enjoyed this timeline. I have learned about several historical figures that I had never heard of before. Thank you for that. In places, even your words are somberly beautiful and evocative such as this line in the latest chapter about the old Austro-Prussian war veterans who "repeatedly dodged death in the cool autumn breezes." Kudos on a continuing masterpiece of writing
Do you plan to send German Army ?
Do you meant 4 &1/2 century ago (1453 - 1917) = 464
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So the Hungarians committed regicide? And sacked Paris’ only rival as the heart of high European culture?
Counting down to when the Kaiser’s stormtroopers putting the boot to the Hungarians.
Counting down to when the Kaiser’s stormtroopers putting the boot to the Hungarians.
Wow- thanks very much; that's awfully kind of you!
Really glad you like it, hope you stay on for more!
Indeed I do. This won't help Emperor Maximilian's legitimacy, but it will get the job done.
Yeah... not the smartest move ever. They just handed the Danubians a great martyr.
Karoly will get what's coming to him, rest assured.
You might put it that way- Danubia is going to be demanding a lot of heads on platters after this.
Isn’t he just regent?
Literally so, with the pope’s blessing.
The German eagle clawing his face off?
Yes, but Otto is only five, so Maximilian's got at least thirteen years in the big chair, and will be making all the decisions Karl or Franz Joseph would've. Bad PR doesn't help.
The Rape of Vienna, the murder of Emperor Karl, Cardinal Piffl, and other notables.
The Hungarians like to think so, especially since they managed to get the Emperor. And if it was Franz Josef, that might have worked. But it was Karl, and right after he’d spearheaded a popular federalization reform of the Habsburg Empire too. That he died as a literal martyr will also galvanize popular support for the Habsburg Dynasty, and in a way that transcends the Catholic-Orthodox divide.