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    How could the Oregon dispute have gone differently?

    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...
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    How could Nice and Savoy remained Italian (or technically Sardinian)?

    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...
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    Crusaders win at the Battle of Nicopolis?

    Perhaps a few martyred Popes wouldn't be the worst thing for the institution.
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    Crusaders win at the Battle of Nicopolis?

    The Popes go on Crusades with the armies to promote discipline.
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    What is the maximum amount of territory that a longer lived Norman Kingdom of Sicily could hold onto and how long could it hold onto that territory?

    Norman Roman Empire 🤠
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    What is the maximum amount of territory that a longer lived Norman Kingdom of Sicily could hold onto and how long could it hold onto that territory?

    Do you think that could be too much on their plate though? They couldn't even keep Southern Italy.
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    Crusader States in the New World?

    Southern California and the Sonoran Desert are good candidates for a monastic state.
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    What is the maximum amount of territory that a longer lived Norman Kingdom of Sicily could hold onto and how long could it hold onto that territory?

    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...
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    What if Nicholas I (the fox) tried to steal the straits (the eggs/hens) when invited by the Sultan to protect the OE (the henhouse) in 1833?

    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.
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    Could an expansion-minded post-Civil War United States have been able to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire by 1900?

    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...
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    What if Nicholas I (the fox) tried to steal the straits (the eggs/hens) when invited by the Sultan to protect the OE (the henhouse) in 1833?

    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...
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    CSA with a different president

    Howell Cobb is a potential candidate.
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    Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    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.
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    AHQ: Who is Lincoln's successor if not Grant?

    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.
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    Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    Texas... Yankees... What in Daniel Boone's coonskin cap is going on here? :closedeyesmile:
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    Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    The Americans had a high birthrate, especially in the colonial period. New England received miniscule immigration after the 1640s, so its increase was entirely from their own fecundity. Between 1783 and1820 the USA received little immigration. Looking after that period the number of immigrants...
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    Could the British Empire have continued with the American colonies dominating it over Great Britain?

    Some very brief searches showed America passed Britain in GDP sometime in the end of the 1800s, by 1914 Britain's GDP was about one third of America's, and that the USA surpassed the British Empire's GDP in 1916. In many possible situations which could answer this thread it would appear that...
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    What effect might the absence of Rome have on Italy and Gaul

    I am not very knowledgeable about that region and era. From what I do know there wasn't any tribe, nation, or polity there strong enough and centralized enough to unify Italy and Gaul. Epirus and Syracuse would likely contest with Carthage, but they look to be regional powers, and I don't think...
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    WI: What if the Newburgh Conspiracy had succeeded?

    You have confused two separate incidents. The Newburgh Letter circulated in Washington's camp in Newburg, New York in March 1783, and the Pennsylvania Mutiny was the protest of 500 Continental Army soldiers stationed close to Philadelphia in June 1783. Pennsylvania's President John Dickinson...
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    WI: what if Peru's royalists managed to kick out the independists and keep it a part of spain?

    I just read that Spain was able to retake the Dominican Republic in the 1860s briefly. The DR had declared independence and intended to join Gran Colombia, but was conquered by Haiti. Later it broke away from Haiti, eventually was taken over by a dictator, and the dictator allowed Spain to take...
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