What would've happened if Togo and the Imperial Japanese Navy had not triumphed at Tsushima? What if Rozhdestvenski, with a fully modern battlefleet manned by skilled Russian sailors, had sunk the majority of the Japanese vessels? How would the carving up of China turned out regarding the two...
Good God! How bloody abhorrent! What a thought! Scared the gentleman right out of me!
That said, you provide a very interesting view of what would have happened had Napoleon not turned his back on England, marched his Grande Armee to victory at Ulm and Austerlitz, and then continued to Tilsit...
What if military technology and attire never advanced past the Napoleonic Wars? British redcoats, French bluecoats, Prussian blue/gray/black, Russian greencoats, Austrian whitecoats wage what would have been modern war with very modern (easily over 1 million men) numbers. Imagine World War I...
Hey, I'm no longer a Kennedy supporter myself thanks to my Mass Communications professor. Do any of you know that Jack Kennedy's dad, actually stole liquor from the Mafia during the Prohibition Era and sold it as his own? Do any of you know that Jack never paid for a single meal in nearly his...
Washington DC, November 20 1963: President Kennedy receives a message from an "undercover operative" that a plot to kill him in Dallas on the 22nd has been discovered. The President decides the warning may be credible or not. He decides to go anyway to garner Texan support for the future...
Ah ha! I've thought mused and contemplated this question before. What if he had died an infant? Or for that matter, had he died in his early or mid teens? The world would be very different indeed, at least Europe would be.
Militarily, Europe's armies would have taken a lot longer to modernise...
I agree with you here. Britain would have had to nourish the sense of imperial pride among her peoples, which she did to an extent. I remember seeing a picture of the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII) touring the Raj on the back of elegantly attired elephant and in the background there...
Good God! What the devil would we want with Brazil?! Okay, so they have the world's largest known iron reserves and the Amazon and its inhabitants could use greater protection from forestry and gradual extinction. Hmm...I guess we could do a lot of good with Brazil and perhaps actually profit in...
It is 2005. The British Empire has not fallen. In fact, the Imperial bonds have grown stronger, fostered by a common spirit of "imperial brotherhood". London is a highly diverse metropolis, with every ethnic group in the Empire finding it's own little piece of home in the Mother of Cities. The...