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  1. Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt - A United Seventeen Provinces TL

    High levels of trust all around I see. Truly, a recipe for success!

  2. Cavalry Charge Described as Shock Tactics

    Best source I ever had for this is a site I stumbled upon over a decade ago, but was too stupid to properly bookmark, so you'll have to settle for my memory. Bear in mind that for the next part little concrete proof exists, besides common sense, vague descriptions (since outdated by the time we...

  3. Cavalry Charge Described as Shock Tactics

    A charge does not look like what Hollywood shows us, at all. In fact, most charges never even make contact with the enemy. Whether on foot or on horseback, you have to be suicidal to physically smash into a well formed enemy line at speed, and horses are quite fearful animals as well. So, if...

  4. Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt - A United Seventeen Provinces TL

    Short wiki page on the new governor, former viceroy of Naples and ambassador in Rome and with experience against the Ottomans. IOW, while experienced in governing/diplomacy, likely to make mistakes regarding how to deal with protestants. Romero OTOH, certainly has some interesting info on his...

  5. If France manages to keep the Austrian Netherlands in the 18th century, does that mean French HRE?

    There is no precedent at this point for removing an Electorate (let alone 2) from existence by foreign conquest (nor, IIRC, for an electorate durably changing hands this way), so one should not expect the Habsburgs (and other German princes) to just shrug and parachute the orphaned electors...

  6. If France manages to keep the Austrian Netherlands in the 18th century, does that mean French HRE?

    Been there, done that, and totally got away with it before for the French. Admittedly, the Three Bishoprics together are several times smaller than Liège, but still, no legal differences and Liège is not an electorate. Just needs a good excuse to march in. Trier, being an electorate, is...

  7. What if France obtained eastern Hispaniola earlier, for longer?

    And to think that most places that had tax farming implemented it because it was seen as more efficient and reliable than the preceeding tax collection schemes. But more than half of collected taxes as 'expenses', holy cow! No wonder that the commoners were pissed at the gabelle, taille and...

  8. If France manages to keep the Austrian Netherlands in the 18th century, does that mean French HRE?

    You don't easily end an instutution that has existed for nearly a millenia (exact age depends on how you count) and which suits most rulers that are part of it. OTL it took Napoleon's massive, swift victories to create the necessary system shock. An Ancien Régime state is highly unlikely to ever...

  9. Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt - A United Seventeen Provinces TL

    A blessing in disguise then (anything that removes the opportunity for van Hembyse to go full fanatic anti-Catholic persecution is a good thing). OTL, Aarschot took the side of the Spanish in 1577, TTL in a way he....sort-of-but-not-quite did just now in order to fill the power vacuum. Curious...

  10. Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt - A United Seventeen Provinces TL

    Interesting. For things to end up better than OTL for the Low Countries, the Catholic nobles, who are already feeling uneasy about the Calvinist zealots, preferably need to be angrier at whatever the Spanish reaction will be to this assassination than with the assassination itself, so I'm...

  11. No Versailles, Alternative French Royal Residences?

    Exactly 17km to the Palais du Louvre from the Château de Versailles, while the Château de Compiègne is just shy of 72km. So if a king goes for Compiègne as main residence, everything important will have to move there, which, IIRC was not entirely the case with Versailles since Paris was within...

  12. WI: May 1946 French Constitutional Referendum succeeds?

    Both a vote of confidence asked by the government as a motion of censure on the initiative of the Assemblée would have required an absolute majority of members. From the actual text of the proposed constitution (sole link on its French wiki): Those were also literally copy-pasted into the...

  13. What would a dutch-led Germany be called?

    The examples you give are all cases of less accurate transliterations of native names being replaced with more accurate ones. Except for Ukraine, there it's Russian based ones being replaced for Ukrainian based ones. "Duitschland" in Dutch is a completely different linguistic change. It is...

  14. What would a dutch-led Germany be called?

    Impossible to even start guessing without knowing which version of the Netherlands, how and when. A pre-Burgundian local dynasty pulling a Habsburg in the middle ages is going to have a completely different result than a much later unification for instance.

  15. Could Luxembourg expand within the German Empire?

    Indeed, nothing to gain for Prussia here, so not happening. Even more so since legally, King of Prussia is his first job (he gets to be German Emperor ex officio in the constitution). An unlikely hill to die on for powerless Luxembourg, they are bound to get better treatment by 'willingly'...

  16. Wank the Belgian Navy for WW1/2

    War lessons learned + the need to sweep the North Sea of the mines left over after the war + NATO (planning for the possibility of another Battle of the Atlantic) requiring certain commitments from its member states before we could change our mind about having a navy. The NATO bit is almost...

  17. Would it have been so bad for France to fall to the Soviet camp in the Cold War?

    It would be a disaster for both NATO (strategic catastrophe) and France (economic ruin and political isolation from its neigbours). It is also extremely unlikely, doubly so with De Gaulle, who was very much not a leftist (nor an idiot), and would require Paris, and perhaps even more so Moscow...

  18. Demographics of a surviving Austria-Hungary (again)

    Meh, that's pretend-HSR :p. More seriously, while the official limit in Europe is 250+, any, er, serious, HSR project I am aware of has always used trains capable of 300+ km/h, so any HSR-only track built to 250-300 km/h standards is a bit of a weird investment. You are already doing most of...

  19. Demographics of a surviving Austria-Hungary (again)

    HSR != normal rail High speed rail requires special tracks built to very demanding specifications as it has to resist trains going 300+ km/h. Most annoyingly for difficult terrain is that fast trains have a much larger turning circle (unsourced claim for 4km+ turning radii for TGV. For...

  20. Demographics of a surviving Austria-Hungary (again)

    You can always take inspiration from the French TGV network (warning: 7MB PDF). Interesting varia to note there (with official city populations and urban agglomerations, as France loves small municipalites, which can give a wrong impression of actual city size): A complete lack of HSR in...
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