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  1. Russia's 4th Pacific Squadron: A New Hope: This Time It's Personal

    Russia's 4th Pacific Squadron: A New Hope: This Time It's Personal... Inspired, somewhat, by the never-say-die spirit invoked by Glenn in the "Midway Surface Battle" thread, if by some miracle the Russian government of Tsar Nicholas II wanted to continue the war with Japan even after Mukden...

  2. The North Atlantic War of 1938-??

    In 1938, the US share of world manufacturing output was 31.4 percent; that of the UK in the same year was 10.7 percent (numbers from Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers). Now, without explaining the politics that leads to the situation, posit that the US decides to mount a...

  3. SEALION: 1860

    Ireland secedes from the UK; France and the U.S. declare war in support of the Irish. ON EDIT: And there's no famine, so there are 8 million Irish in 1840. And, France is trying to impose an Austrian prince on the throne of Scotland... Can Britain survive?:rolleyes: ON EDIT: More...

  4. 150 years ago today...

    http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/appomattox-courthouse/appomattox-court-house-history/surrender.html So, the question is, if Lee had broken away from the US forces - no Sayler's/Sailor's Creek, for example - and he actually managed to get (say) ~28,000 men (which is about all the Army of...

  5. The Course of Empire

    The Course of Empire are five thematically connected paintings by Thomas Cole, an American painter in the early Nineteenth Century seen as one of the founders of the Hudson River School of grand landscapes; it reflects a view of history that was very prevalent in his era (ref. Gibbon and Von...

  6. Winston S. "Win" Churchill, US officer

    No, not the American novelist - who, interestingly enough, was a USNA graduate... Provoked by a "things that look like AH but aren't" thread in chat and the USS Winston S. Churchill, consider this: Jennie Jerome divorces Randolph (or never marries him? Apparently she was expecting when they...

  7. Victorious CSA - have at it:

    The end state is a CSA of (at least) two of the existing (1861) US states that retain chattel slavery and are recognized as independent by the community of nations, including the United States, at some point between 1861-1870. The ground rules are: 1) History is as it was until April 11...

  8. Most important military or naval victory by country?

    This is just sort of a "solicit the opinion of the board" sort of question, but in the period before 1900, what do our correspondents from various countries see as the most important military or naval victory in their nation's history? As an example, for the US, I would suggest: 18th...

  9. Most important military or naval victory by country?

    This is just sort of a "solicit the opinion of the board" sort of question, but in the Twentieth Century, what do our correspondents from various countries see as the most important military or naval victory in their nation's history? As an example, for the US, I would suggest Normandy in the...

  10. BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL: A History of the Great War (Foreward)

    BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL: A History of the Great War By T.F. Smith Copyright (c) 2013-2014 by the author. All rights reserved. ============================================================ Foreword The following is a work of fiction, and created primarily for entertainment value, both for...

  11. RE Lee is as obscure as Samuel Cooper?

    Thanks Mr. Crafurd for this one - in the winter of 1861, RE "Granny" Lee had been in command in Western Virginia when the rebels were defeated there (by troops under the command of GB McClellan and WS Rosecrans, no less); he was kicked upstairs to the southeastern coast command (essentially...

  12. Anglo-Russian War in 1854 WITHOUT French troops?

    The best general figures I've seen for the Allied expeditionary forces at their strongest in the Crimean/Black Sea theater in 1854 are (roughly) 60,000 French and 27,000 British; source is "A Brief History of the Crimean War" by Alexis Troubetzkoy, Carrol & Graf, 2006, p. 169. Obviously, the...
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