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A holiday-inspired pondering this time... In 1861, after the Secession of Virginia, Unionist troops occupied Alexandria and maintained control of it until the end of the US civil war. But what if Virginia had thought to strengthen Alexandria's defences before it seceded? What if the Union hadn't been able to seize it? How different might the course of the US Civil War have been? @HeX et al