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  1. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 24: Fall for now Silent the Guns: the Treaty of Pondicherry

    Attempts at ending the War of the Triple Alliance, or the Third Anglo-Mysore War, had faltered upon mutually irreconcilable demands, and the hope on both sides that final victory might be just around the corner. The sudden recalibration of forces following the de-facto exit of the Marathas from...

  2. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    Huh, thanks for pointing that out, I was relying on some of the books describing hill forts around Bangalore and so I thought that the terrain would be more mountainous than it actually was. I'll change it.

  3. AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    Yes, that's completely correct, there is definitely a cultural element that goes into it. I remember reading that the Russian liberal party, the Yabloko party, was shocked back in 2014 following the Crimean annexation by the depth of anti-Western sentiment that it revealed among the general...

  4. AHC: Make Russian an accepted part of the west.

    I think even the idea that you have to go back to 1917 to prevent Russia from becoming "eastern" is overselling it. Up until the current Ukrainian War Russia was definitely viewed as part of Europe, and the questions about whether it is really European have only started to flow since 2022...

  5. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 23: The Years of the Sword V, The Sultan's Third Flight

    The death of the Maratha Peshwa, Madhavrao II, plunged the Maratha Confederacy into a civil war. Maratha politics were highly complex, but the formal head of state, the Peshwa, was under the control of Nana Phadnavis, a Machiavellian eminence grise whose domination would drive the young...

  6. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    Unfortunately Fulton's steam boat designs really are white elephants in the early 1800s, not enough power or armament. Maybe useful for commerce raiding. But I'm always interested in scientific butterflies so I always appreciate the suggestions. We do have the changes in rocketry that need to...

  7. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    I accidentally put "the" instead of "a," thanks for pointing it out. It was based upon the original Glorious First of June Campaign and there were both French and British convoys at sea, although the French one was dramatically more important in strategic terms considering the food supplies that...

  8. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 22: Live (somewhat) Free or Die, Victor Hughes and the Sister Republics of the Antilles

    Your slaves do not need your generosity or your advice to shatter the sacrilegious yoke that oppresses them. Nature speaks louder than philosophy or interest. Already two colonies of fugitive negroes have been established, and they are protected from your attacks by treaties and by force. These...

  9. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    Fundamentally, once you have the OTL set-up of forces, things are mostly set in place. Yes, the French could certainly get some lucky breaks, there were some close calls where bombing nearly took out key German figures, there are always flukes of a good hit on a German pontoon bridge or some...

  10. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 21: Indes paisibles, indes galantes: Naval War in the Atlantic

    When comte Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, bailli de Suffren returned victorious from his campaign in the East Indies, as the most successful admiral in French history since Tourville under the Sun King, he was greeted with wild abandon and rejoicing. Fêted, overwhelmed with honors and...

  11. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    Related to this, I've been putting together a reading material list on Tipu Sultan (and to a lesser extent Hyder Ali, there simply isn't as much written on him), for collating the books I've read, what's worth reading, and seeing how historiography for them has changed over time. Still a work in...

  12. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 20, The Years of the Sword IV: To the Breaking Point

    There is nothing on Earth like the arrival of the monsoon in India. The oppressive heat lies across the land, building as the blazing sun beats down upon the subcontinent, the plants turning into dry, burning hulks, building and building to a crescendo that seems unsupportable. Perhaps the gods...

  13. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    Bengali history is something I'm mostly ignorant on myself - I read The Hooghly: A Global History which frankly I was quite disappointed by. Also the Company Weavers of Bengal: The East India Company and the Organization of Textile Production in Bengal, 1750-1813 but for some reason none of it...

  14. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    Thank you for the suggested book but it is unfortunately one I've read already 🙃 Good taste though, it is a very useful resource! I'm hoping to eventually do a post on a separate site and then link it here about the resources available for research about Tipu, I have somewhere around 15? or so...

  15. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 19: Empire of Dreams and Miracles: Religion and Mysticism in fin-de-siècle Mysore

    There are as many paths to god as there are souls on Earth - Rumi A calendar shapes our way of thinking about the world, the natural human tendency to see patterns and draw conclusions. Mysore during the Years of the Sword could be thought of as a different collection of dates – was it l’An II...

  16. WI: Libya defeats Chad

    Why would more weapons and aid change anything? The Libyans already dramatically overmatched the Chadians in pretty much every regard - they had actual armored divisions, aircraft, attack helicopters, far more troops, defensive lines, artillery, etc. The problem is that the Libyans were...

  17. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    It's an intriguing development, and I'm glad you think it is reasonable. Of course, there is the problem that most of the time it is easy to think of technology that could have come about earlier, than technology that would be delayed or never happen. Off hand my idea for technological variance...

  18. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore

    I had been busy reading some other books since I got a number of books for Christmas for people and prefer to read them before I pass them on, and had been looking for some books dealing with the French Carnatic, so I was rather distracted from doing another update. Plus some delays in managing...

  19. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 18, The Years of the Sword III: Rockets, Rebels, and Revolutionaries

    Descendons dans nos souterrains : La liberté nous y convie ; Elle parle, républicains Et c'est la voix de la patrie. Lavez la terre, en un tonneau ; En faisant évaporer l'eau, Bientôt le nitre va paraître. Pour visiter Pitt, en bateau, Il ne nous faut que du salpêtre. Mettons fin à l'ambition...

  20. How might a modern baby boom occur?

    The problem with banning contraceptives is that you don't actually need modern contraceptives to crater the birth rate. The first country in the world to undergo a major demographic transition was France, and they did it in the 19th century, which is obviously long before modern contraceptives...
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