Recent content by Simreeve

Well, they could try steering the land-hungry Anglo-Americans there anyway, to mess with France... :D

Okay, that works as well.. or even better. A Seven Years War without Spanish participation, and thus probably without a Spanish presence at the peace conference, presumably would see 'Louisiana' either left to France or -- more probably, I think -- taken by Britain, and Britain could have...

That's why I said "too": No Seven Years War and no AWI.

Okay, I sit corrected.

Maybe nobody, because apparently Leopold claiming it was what prompted the 'Scramble for Africa' and Congress of Berlin. if he'd left it alone then possibly no European power would have bothered seizing -- rather than just trading with -- anywhere in Africa much further inland than their...

There was an article (in New Scientist?), a few years ago, which said that there was evidence for chickens being kept by the Pre-Columbian natives in part of Chile, and that the chickens kept in that same area today are genetically closer to Polynesian ones than to European ones. That might have...

It probably helps if the AWI never happens, too: In that case Britain might do more to keep Anglo-American settlers from migrating into the area than the USA did IOTL, if asked politely. Of course Britain would then seize the colony if the TL goes on to include a version of the Napoleonic Wars...

I like this, but wouldn't the restored Stuarts have counted their "Kings in exile" for the numbering as well to make the ones here [at least] 'Charles IV' and 'James IV'?? _________________________________________________________________ From a TL that I started many years ago over on...

Paraguay's dictator declares for the Axis, knowing that he's fairly safe from [direct] US intervention and hoping to pick something at the peace treaty after Germany wins. Possibly nothing else happens about this until Brazil joins the Allies, but maybe it pushes them into doing so earlier than...