As is widely known the House of Savoy, after some remarkable successes in the XVII and XVIII centuries ended up leading the struggle for Italian independence and, after the war of 1859 and Garibaldi's expedition, Vittorio Emanuele II became King of Italy in 1861 (Veneto would be added in 1866...
I did some number calculations on if Italy had the equivalent population density of japan, but with a special twist.
I didn't do it with the total population density (counting all the land in the countries), I did it with the amount of USABLE land.
So with the numbers I got, If Italy had the...
Ok, folks, I'm winding down my "Quasi-War" timeline and will do a short one here before I do a full "reboot".
I've had an idea about how just a shift of a state or two from slave to free early on would have broken a lot of those deadlocks from 1800 to 1860. I thought about it being Virginia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Naval_Laws
In 1898, the German Naval Law called for the following total warships to be attained by 1903:
19 battleships (12 existing; 7 additional vessels to be built),
8 coastal ironclads (8 existing),
12 large cruisers (10 existing, 2 additional...
This is a revision of some of my earlier thoughts. Briefly there are several changed that take place during the 19th Century that I will go over. Sweden is convinced by Britain and France to enter the Crimean War. Austria also is convinced to join the war on the...
Their was one of this for US Presidents, so why not one for the U.K.?
Like that thread though, there will be three rules:
One election per post
Wait at least two posts before going again
Don't skip into the future, go in order.
1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative)