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Prior to the War of 1812 the Americans had a stronger position in Columbia/Oregon Country than the British Empire did. The lead was taken by the Astor Company out of Manhattan, trying to get a colony going so they could send supplies up to Russian Alaska, pick up a load of furs, and then take...

That might start a European-wide war if Austria then allies with France to attack Italy because, I think, Russia had pledged to defend Germany against Austria and this might fall into that pledge as a Prussian allied belligerent. Bismarck may have desired to have that war solely on Germany's own...

Perhaps a few martyred Popes wouldn't be the worst thing for the institution.

The Popes go on Crusades with the armies to promote discipline.

Norman Roman Empire 🤠

Do you think that could be too much on their plate though? They couldn't even keep Southern Italy.

Southern California and the Sonoran Desert are good candidates for a monastic state.

Better diplomacy with the Popes probably would have eased domestic problems, and staying out of the depths of the Balkans would be salubrious. The Mezzogiorno south of the Papal States including Malta, Sicily, and Sardinia should be holdable. The further into the Balkans the Normans moved the...

It might lead to a rapid collapse where the Egyptians seize the Mandate of Heaven over Turkish Anatolia, and with Turkey rapidly goes from collapse to renewed vigor like at the end of the First World War. The Balkan remnant would probably form it's own government though.

A potential path starts with a ridiculous string of bad luck where in the United States didn't win any major victories from June 1863 until after the election. Perhaps the Radical Republicans split from Lincoln's National Union Party too. The election went to George McClellan, the luck would...

I don't know how it would have settled out between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. However, the British Empire had started the Great Game against the Russian Empire in 1830 supposedly out of concern that the Russian Empire would take Afghanistan or vassalize Iran which would in turn...

Howell Cobb is a potential candidate.

In America, Dutch mostly died out in the early 1700s, but remained in rural communities for another hundred years. A few isolated pockets survived to the early twentieth century.

How many moonbats are needed for it to be Robert E Lee? Seriously though, Philip Sheridan could become so indignant about Andrew Johnson that he runs to be his replacement.

Texas... Yankees... What in Daniel Boone's coonskin cap is going on here? :closedeyesmile: