Recent content by Victor Marik

Instead of an airborne assault on the Greek island of Crete, as a follow-up to the War in Greece, what would have been the feasability of a German airborne invasion of Cyprus...and would they have suceeded? Were there more allied forces on Cyprus than Crete? If this invasion was meant as an...

1793, or Next Year in Paris January 21: Despite being advised to the contrary, de Sade makes sure to attend the execution of King Louis XVI incognito. February 1: Mistrustful of the revolutionary government, Fayette once again leaves for the front to lead French troops for the Republic...

Perhaps Islam evolves as more of an adjunct to Christianity, along the lines of the Eastern Orthodox or Coptic faiths.

Probably not directly related, but considering the propensity of royalty and nobility to intermarry...then who knows? If nothing else, a well-paid scholar could whip up something sufficiently credable. EDIT: But the Direct line of Capteians thing is not the direction I'm taking this timeline.

Just a couple fun ideas... Napoleon somehow pulls off the Russia campaign slightly better (ie, no Grande Armee collapse), but has to make compromise with the Poles. Instead of Marshal, Pilsudski could have been made King of Poland in exchange for keeping Russia from routing the Empire...

1792, or the (Guillotine) Slice of Life Episode April 20: As France declares war upon Austria, de la Fayette decides to take to the field for France. June: General de la Fayette, writing from his army headquarters in Metz, suggests that the best way for the radical clubs in Paris to regain...

Thank you, I think I'll use the safer term XD.

Perhaps if Gustavus Adolphus had been more succesful, he or his daughter Christina might have attempted it in the mid-seventeenth century. It would have had to have been more of a vanity project, though :rolleyes:

1791 February 28: Following attempts both on his own life as well as that of King Louis XVI, de la Fayette leads the arrest of hundreds of aristocrats at the Tuileries Palace. While most view this as a break between the Marquis and royalists, the Day of the Poignards will come to be used by...

Part I: Society of 1789 May 12, 1790: Marquis de Lafayette joins with Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, to form the Society of 1789. The group's charter includes several articles seeking to oppose the influence of the Jacobin Club. A policy on Danton and Marat's Society of the Friends of...

What if a more hard-line Pope succeeded Innocent VIII in 1492? If the man who enacted what would become known as the Bonfire of the Vanities becomes head of the Catholic Church, would there be different interactions between the Holy See and the Protestant Reformers? Between the Catholic Church...

The crowd packing St. Peter's Square watched anxiously for proof of their new Pope. Hours earlier the white smoke had been spotted, and the news travelled quickly. Now it seemed that all of Rome stood in mute awe, caught up in a mix of religious furor and curious skepticism. --- Inside the...

1945 - Stalin decides he wants a second corridor to the Baltic, and takes southern Lithuania so he can connect Kaliningrad to Russia proper. He also annexes Tallinn, Estonia, as another medium-size port. Stalin allows the Baltic States to remain independent, but they become little more then...

For some reason I was reminded of the movie The Wild Geese. Would the mercenaries we are talking about be handling major combat operations or act as more support/special operations units?

Did I ask a silly question? Sorry. :) I think Los Angeles would still be operable. The whole L.A. metropolitan area is spread out horizontally, so hitting an 8-mile radius there isn't going to hurt it that much. If the aliens hit the tallest buildings in central L.A., then the port is...