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  1. L’Aigle Triomphant: A Napoleonic Victory TL

    Whoops my bad, read his date of death as 1813 rather than 1803. Still it's important Nappy starts looking outside Europe, as Britain is nothing more than a cold, wet island with terrible food without her Empire. Also, does Britain hold the entirety of the East Indies including modern day...

  2. L’Aigle Triomphant: A Napoleonic Victory TL

    And so peace reigns in Europe, but rest of the world gets bloodier by extension. I assume France will begin rebuilding it shattered global influence, possibly by not messing about in Haiti (maybe offering a more lenient deal to Toussaint Louverture, unlikely, but Napoleon stayed his hand once...

  3. Plausibility check: Napoleonic Egypt and landing in India

    Something that hasn't been mentioned yet is why the French needed to get to India by 1798. Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore was the last indian ruler to hold Indian coastal territory and be a clear and definitive French ally. In 1798, he was at war with the British in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War...

  4. L’Aigle Triomphant: A Napoleonic Victory TL

    It also means that Nappy has potential Indian allies in the Maratha Confederacy and Kingdom of Nepal (which may not be at war with the EIC due to the chaos in Europe). If the Confederacy can centralize and actively get the sub rulers of it's fiefdoms to co-operate with each other, then France...

  5. PODs for a more successful Sepoy Mutiny?

    By international support, I'm alluding to more of a neutral stance rather than exploiting British losses, ensuring that a native led India exists through European non-interference. The big issue is that lack of a high officer class, which hurt the rebels and a coherent plan as to what the plan...

  6. PODs for a more successful Sepoy Mutiny?

    I'm not sure of a single specific PoD, but there are three main things that doomed the rebels. 1) Organisation: By nature the rebellion was sporadic and haphazard, which is to be expected, but for success, the rebels needed to have a more coordinated structure with more high level officers...

  7. DBWI: What if the Royalists won the English Civil War?

    This a bit further afield, but perhaps with Britain remaining a monarchy, the idea of coronated rulers being 'alien' to western European ideas would be weakened, and the traditional monarchies of Asia and Africa would be seen in a better light for the time. This could butterfly away the many...

  8. Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    This is absolutely stunning! May I ask how the calligraphic eagle was made?

  9. Osman Reborn; The Survival of Ottoman Democracy [An Ottoman TL set in the 1900s]

    Additionally, and this is a little off topic, but since football was mentioned, will FIFA / the World Cup be a thing? Will there be centralisation into an Ottoman FA, or will a group of regional FA's become a thing like the UK and Austria-Hungary?

  10. Imperator Francorum: A Napoleon II Timeline

    This actually really interesting as the post-Ranjit Sikh Empire was an absolute viper's nest with almost everyone involved in his succession was assassinated. His eldest son, Kharak Singh was viewed as lazy and died through probably mercury poisoning, his grandson Nau Nihal got hit in the head...

  11. Osman Reborn; The Survival of Ottoman Democracy [An Ottoman TL set in the 1900s]

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom (the song) probably sounds very different...

  12. Alternate History: Explain the historical event

    Referring to the economic programme to rebuild the Aztec city of Ixtapaluca by Montezuma VI "the Architect" after the Great Ixtapaluca Fire in 1776. The city would be rebuilt over 20 years and cost almost 250 million dollars in today's money. However, Ixtapaluca today is the most beautiful city...

  13. Osman Reborn; The Survival of Ottoman Democracy [An Ottoman TL set in the 1900s]

    WRT to India, if the ottomans can affect things, best case scenario would be balkanisation, with alt-Pakistan, a rump India centered around the Ganges, Bangladesh, a surviving Hyderabad with access to Vizagapatnam, Mysore, Travancore, Kashmir and a Dravidian nation (Maybe broken further into...

  14. WI: Bengal and Great Britain industrialize at the same rate/time.

    I simply think it's a matter of proximity, that countries closer to the industrial power see the benefits quicker and as such, adopting those industrial measures sooner. I could be wrong though, as I am far from an Ottoman historian.

  15. WI: Bengal and Great Britain industrialize at the same rate/time.

    The entire history of the globe is changed irrevocably. The Bengal conquest arguably marks the beginning of the British Empire. Without it, Britain doesn't have a springboard to conquer the rest of India, meaning it can't compete with other European powers such as France and Austria, meaning...

  16. Silver Road and Golden Stripes, Yet Another Football TL

    @Wings how do you make the wikiboxes for each match/round? Thinking of making a version of my own

  17. DBWI - No Communist India

    Moving away from politics, would India's sports scene change drastically? Maybe cricket (seen as the 'British Game') would not be as supressed while athletics would not be as promoted in a non-Communist India? Would it affect India's performance at the Olympics, where it regularly competes with...

  18. Imperator Francorum: A Napoleon II Timeline

    Question, during this time the Tanzimat reforms were undergoing in the Ottoman Empire and the Janissary Corps were being fazed out by the New Model infantry. With France pulling Russia's attention, will the ottomans avoid becoming the sick man of Europe?

  19. Imperator Francorum: A Napoleon II Timeline

    Oooh, interesting. Subbed

  20. AHC: The "Duh, of Course" challenge

    Duh, India was never going to be colonised outside of smaller city states, how could the British, who had as much naval output as the Bengal province, do anything to disrupt the well entrenched native powers. OOC-The British lose the Battle of Plassey, and as result never conquer the rest of...
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