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What if Napoleon Was Elected as Holy Roman Emperor?
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Even if he was already Emperor of the French, he might well reason that two empires are better than one. Plus there extra legitimacy in...
Yesterday at 7:51 AM
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Kings without coronations?
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Something like that did actually (almost) happen with Elizabeth I of England; to quote Wikipedia: It was not obvious which bishop...
Sunday at 1:18 PM
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WI: Von mercy survives And won the Second battle of nordlingen.
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I'm not sure. But its probably safe to say that he would fair better than anyone who succeeded him. Geleen wasn't terrible but I don't...
Sunday at 6:05 AM
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Well it would help the Bavarians, though in the near term French gains were so modest after the battle that I don't think it changes...
Saturday at 6:29 PM
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Usually the problem is that existing income doesn't cover expenses even apart from debt payment, so repudiating debt still leaves you...
Saturday at 6:17 AM
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Frederick II kills Pope and makes Church his bureaucracy
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But Philip did not order the death of Boniface in Otl, that was a myth that was formed over the following centuries ( which was happily...
Saturday at 6:17 AM
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to set a cat amongst the pigeons here, but what if OTL Louis XVIII had been in charge in 1774- say XVI dies shortly before his marriage...
Friday at 11:13 AM
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Indeed, most of the French royal debt was held internally—not externally. Most of those which held investments in French debt in the...
Friday at 11:12 AM
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Charles V gave the Low Countries to Austria Philip II continue reconquista?
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Would an Austrian-ruled Netherlands still rebel like IOTL? And if it did, would the Austrians be more or less likely to defeat the...
Friday at 11:07 AM
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Sweden doesn't enter the Thirty Years' War, so what do the Habsburgs and their allies do?
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For a variety of reasons, Gustavus II Adolphus decided not to go to war with the Holy Roman Empire in 1630: Richelieu might fail to...
Thursday at 9:29 AM
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Frederick II kills Pope and makes Church his bureaucracy
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I don't think that would work either -- no-one else would have any reason to accept either the deposition or the antipope as legitimate...
Thursday at 9:06 AM
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US Balkanization- Long Term Russian Hyperpower
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Well, firstly, the 19th century was the period when social darwinist ideas reached their peak. Great powers were expected to be...
Thursday at 9:03 AM
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To be honest, by the last years of the Ancien Régime (essentially in 1788-89) they had essentially run into issues of paying their short...
Wednesday at 5:58 PM
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Could The Roman Empire have conquered all of the British isles, had it chosen to try?
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That was how almost all Roman conquests played out though. The Romans sent very large armies against the Carthaginians in the Third...
Wednesday at 5:02 PM
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The wall really wasn't good enough though. That's why Rome had to keep 3 legions stationed in Britain until the 5th century. And the...
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