Bold of you to assume what racing occurs in Louisville, Indiana.
OTOH, how long will it be before the Kentucky Bluegrass will be safe from having Horses find unexploded ordinance the hard way.
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OTOH, how long will it be before the Kentucky Bluegrass will be safe from having Horses find unexploded ordinance the hard way.
That makes me ponder the treaty ending the war being the Treaty of Port-au-Prince which would be incredibly hilarious.
"Oh you don't want a treaty of Washington and would prefer a different country? Ok, we pick Haiti"
Not saying it's likely but it would be a GREAT way to rub salt in the wound.
Are there enough intact buildings in Washington, DC to hold a signing ceremony? The other place that would be fun (but I think the comments about its future indicate not) would be the same location as the Niagara conference that tried to keep the war from happening.
The technical term is "Brevetted", but that only applies to a Commissioned Officer...
I know the OP has said that there aren't Black officers commanding White soldiers, but I believe there are Black Officers commanding Black Soldiers. And it is entirely possible that you might have it happen temporarily (a white unit losing its officers and until the battle is over taking direction).
That makes too much sense to actually occur.
Britain has been viewed as a (relative) neutral and any concerns the US had about Britain somehow grabbing the Canal have been washed away in Blood.For General Lejeune. He was the son of a Confederate army veteran and grew up in a town in Louisiana named after slave owners from the late 1700. Is there any information that his viewed on Race were significantly different than US Marines at the time? (Yes, I know the author can alter his experiences...)
In terms of Russia, yes, we see that economically it is farther behind its European neighbors than OTL (due the French investments going to Austria) and it is dealing with a strong Ottoman Empire, but are there any changes other than *not* being in the war at the time that make it more stable? (Yes, the author has said we aren't dealing with some of the odder political pathways of OTL, which almost certainly means no communist revolution) But you are *still* dealing with the fact that a Russian Peasant was still one of the least free people in all of Europe. (I've seen arguments that a English farmer at the time of the American War for Independence had more freedoms than a Russian Farmer did in 1916)
I mean, the Duma is probably channeling more political energies into liberalizing that institution - and Russia hasn't had the humiliation of the Russo-Japanese War . But it strikes me that they are probably still primed for some radicalism outbreaks across the Empire (it's actually interesting just how much Russian radicals were in communication with their Polish brethren, for instance and were influencing one another).
I'm actually really interested in what's going on in Poland right now. Our good Swedish King has stated that the political aspirations of Poles aren't as dismal as they might seem - but it would be interesting to see the situation on the ground there. Even without the French investment, Poland is probably still the most industialized part of the Empire (thanks in part to the Warsaw Positivists and other factors) and I can't imagine that it's any less restive than in OTL. I wonder what Dmowski, Pilsudski and the rest are up to right now; as well as how fares the other partitians.
Russia hasn't had the humiliation of the Russo-Japanese war, but OTOH, the question is whether the Russian Revolution of 1905 released some of the steam from the pressure cooker to keep it from exploding earlier or it set the stage for 1917.
I'm also curious if there is a significant difference between the Poles and the Finns in terms of succeeding in independence...
My thoughts too - being a BIT more democratic and having a slightly more competent government than that of Nicholas probably helps too, but there are still a lot of social pressures at play and probably too many to stop some kind of blow up around this time.
Me too - what's interesting is the the Niepokornie generation of nationalists in Poland (roughly from the 1880s through WWI and independence) ended up splitting into the Socialists and National Democracy (ethnic nationalist, really) factions. However, the group and situation was super fluid until about 1900 or a bit after. So, considering the altered situations in the ATL, there's some real fun room to play around here - the factions could develop differently, you could have people drifting into different camps, OTL enemies become ATL enemies, etc. Add on to this that King of Sweden has said there's actually increased Polish emigration in the Cinqo-verse, you could well have some major figures who stayed in Poland actually emigrate to the United States here instead.
Honestly, with a stronger Polish presense in the United States, I'd say their situation there is even more analogous to the post-Civil War Irish than in OTL. If the Polish-Americans end up coming out of the GAW with more social standing (and, just as importantly, a better economic standing) I'm seeing a LOT of American money being funnelled through Polish nationalist organizations back into Poland itself. And if there is any civil disturbance in Russia post-GAW, there are also going to be a lot of Polish-Americans with military training who would be more than happy to go home and lend a helping hand (which occurred, to an extent in OTL as well - the Polish National Alliance actually tried to organize Polish military units to send to help the allies during WW1. )
Even without an active uprising - a richer, more secure, larger and less divided American Polonia (and I'm guessing that the GAW is more than enough to help heal the rift between the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America - and the Polish Church War/much of the in-fighting in Polonia began to clear up in OTL at around this point anyway) is going to have major reprecussions in Poland-proper and it's nationalist circles. And that's not even taking into consideration that two of the major partitioning powers are about ready to duke it out in the next few years (I keep focusing on Russia - but Galicia and the German-partitian are equally fascinating situations).
Its kinda a fascinating situation!
Additional factors in regards to Russia.
1) There is going to be a *lot* of money available from selling pretty much everything (especially food) to both sides in the CEW.
2) There are conversely going to be a lot of weapons floating around Europe in the aftermath...
I'm not sure if Alexander II is assassinated in 1881 iTTL (my guess is yes) and frankly, given Russian history, I wouldn't be *that* surprised if we had another Tsar assassinated. Note, *attempted* assassinations of Tsars won't even make North American published textbooks.
1) There is going to be a *lot* of money available from selling pretty much everything (especially food) to both sides in the CEW.
2) There are conversely going to be a lot of weapons floating around Europe in the aftermath...
I'm not sure if Alexander II is assassinated in 1881 iTTL (my guess is yes) and frankly, given Russian history, I wouldn't be *that* surprised if we had another Tsar assassinated. Note, *attempted* assassinations of Tsars won't even make North American published textbooks.
If I remember correctly, current Tsar Michael doesn’t have a male child yet, so someone assassinated him could cause quite some troubles.
I believe there was an attempt, he survived but it left him in ill health - he lingered for a few years before passing. But I'm not sure that that is true.
Hmm. It isn't OTL's Nicholas II? Can someone please point me to the point in the thread? And speaking of Russian Royals, how has the genetic lottery gone among Victoria's daughters and their descendants in regards to Hemophilia
Nope, OTL Nicky was kill by a flu in 1890, along with his younger brother Alexander and George, making the youngest son Michael the heir apparent.
Edit: scroll further down the page and looked for index title “The Bug That Traveled the World: The Spread and Aftermath of the 1890s Influenza Pandemic”
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You are correct, though that seems to be the wrong post - it's about the death of Kaiser Heinrich I's mother Viktoria.
Mentioned just below it apparently in a comment by the Author. No actual posting about it, I think. My comment about the 1776 English Farther and (OTL) 1914 Russian farmer stands.
And I'm not sure how far you have to back in the history of the Island of Britain to get any significant tradition of Absolute Monarch the way that Russia had more or less up to the Russian Revolution (and arguably beyond), my *guess* is the last of the Western Roman Emperors to control Britain (which one that is depends on how you interpret the sub-Roman period in the 5th century)