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In our world, the bloodiest and most costly war ever fought was, of course, World War 2. As evident in much of alternate history, however, we got off light with 55 million casualties. The Long War in The Years of Rice and Salt, for example, lasted for 70 years and claimed over one billion lives.

What wars have you included in alternate history that dwarf our world's WW2 in terms of scale and casualities? Nuclear war, like an exchange between the USA and USSR in the 60's and results in global civilization collapse doesn't count; however, conventional wars with a sprinkling of nuke usage can be included. (Like a WW2 where the Third Reich gets the Bomb in 1944, and nukes the USSR and Britain, only to get nuked back by the USA as American tanks cross the Rhine.)

As for some of mine, I've been drafting a timeline in which France wins the Seven Year's War, and a 27 year-long war erupts in 1903 between the British and French Empires, and ultimately claims 350 million lives.

(France wins, by the way. :D )
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