The Americans winning the Revolutionary The Americans winning the Revolutionary War.
The US winning not just the Mexican-American War, but every battle in it. Young officer Robert E Lee's ability to find previously unknown ways around entrenched Mexican positions would be particularly derided as ASBish.
A successful businessman with no military training, Nathan Bedford Forrest, becoming one of the best commanders the Confederacy had.
An unsuccessful soldier and farmer, Ulysses S Grant, becoming leader of the Union armies, President of the US, and a best selling author.
Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial, being killed by the Zulus while serving in the British Army, because his horse was skittish and a strap on his saddle broke.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The assassins look like the Keystone Cops at first, chickening out or throwing bombs at the wrong car. The one guy who tried anything then ineptly fails at both drowning and poisoning himself. Meanwhile the one assassin who doesn’t flee town decides to stop at a local café on a whim. He leaves just in time to find spot the Archduke at short range. The Archduke’s car just happens to have made a wrong turn and then started reversing back toward the correct street at the exact right time at the only intersection in Sarajevo that mattered. This assassin, unlike his bumbling compatriots, fires twice, killing two people.
An unsuccessful Austrian artist, Adolf Hitler, becoming leader of Germany.
Mortally wounded secret service officer Leslie Coffelt, who shouldn’t even have still been conscious, firing one shot at a distance of thirty feet and blowing the head off of the would-be assassin of Harry Truman.
An Austrian bodybuilder, Arnold Schwartzenegger, having a successful movie career and later becoming governor of California.
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The US winning not just the Mexican-American War, but every battle in it. Young officer Robert E Lee's ability to find previously unknown ways around entrenched Mexican positions would be particularly derided as ASBish.
A successful businessman with no military training, Nathan Bedford Forrest becoming one of the best commanders the Confederacy had.
An unsuccessful soldier and farmer, Ulysses S Grant, become leader of the Union armies, President of the US, and a best selling author.
Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial, being killed by the Zulus while serving in the British Army, because his horse was skittish and a strap on his saddle broke.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The assassins look like the Keystone Cops at first, chickening out or throwing bombs at the wrong car. The one guy who tried anything then ineptly fails at both drowning and poisoning himself. Meanwhile the one assassin who doesn’t flee town decides to stop at a local café on a whim. He leaves just in time to find spot the Archduke at short range. The Archduke’s car just happens to have made a wrong turn and then started reversing back toward the correct street at the exact right time at the only intersection in Sarajevo that mattered. This assassin unlike his bumbling compatriots, fires twice, killing two people.
An unsuccessful Austrian artist, Adolf Hitler, becoming leader of Germany.
Mortally wounded secret service officer Leslie Coffelt, who shouldn’t even have still been conscious, firing one shot at a distance of thirty feet and blowing the head off of the would-be assassin of Harry Truman.
An Austrian bodybuilder, Arnold Schwartzenegger, having a successful movie career and later becoming governor of California.