Chapter Four: A New Map of Republics
The Birth of Helvetia and Italy
In a continuation of revolutionary fervor and strategic expansion, France, under the guidance of Lafayette and the military command of Napoleon, forged ahead with the establishment of new republics aligned with French...
Chapter Three: Holland and Spain
The Overrun of the Netherlands
As the new year dawned in 1795, the landscape of Europe was again redrawn by the bold strokes of French ambition. With Lafayette's reformed French Republic acting with newfound purpose under the military leadership of Napoleon...
Chapter Two: American Front
Mad Anthony Wayne Takes New Orleans
As dawn broke over the murky waters of the Mississippi, General "Mad Anthony" Wayne prepared his troops for what would be one of the boldest offensives of the nascent war—the seizure of New Orleans. Held by Spanish forces, the city...
Paris, 1794—the tumult of the Revolution reached its fever pitch, painting the streets with the colors of fervor and fear. In the shadow of the guillotine's blade, a nation teetered between liberty and terror. But tonight was different; tonight the blade would not fall.
Gilbert du Motier...
An alternate capitol focused on Russia's opening to the West? While there's been discussion here of other Baltic locations, Russia has access to another marginal inner sea. So, Sebastopol, Livadia or Yalta, in a world where Russia conquers the Crimea early? Of course that's a vulnerable...
Although some Yankee traditionalists still claim they support traitors like Grant, Sherman, and Lincoln to celebrate "Northern Heritage" and the North's cultural distinctiveness, Americans widely perceive the "War of Northern Treachery" as an attack on property rights and the Constitution...
Hmm, great scenario! What happens to Poland - does this give them a chance at survival?
Any chance of French involvement? And how would that delay, advance, or otherwise change the French Revolution?
I dunno. The two Roman triumvirates and the Directoire show group leadership as inherently unstable. I'm trying to think of a time in history when government has truly functioned without a chief executive - Switzerland? The United States under the Articles of Confederation?
But particularly in...
Well good news for Crawford of Lymond then. He's never estranged from his family and history is altered forever. Notably, Russia likely never becomes a great power.
Intriguing.
One major question is whether the Sassanids "contain Islam" as well, or whether they collapse. If Persia becomes Muslim, the Byzantines still have a great power competitor of at least their own strength. If not, Middle Eastern politics becomes much more interesting; a three-way...
Fascinating. Very similar to the Viking ethos. Maybe there are parallels in other warrior cultures.
So if Ragnar Loðbrok or Temujin were promoting a new religion while conquering new lands and rising to the pinnacle of his society, you might have seen a theologically different world.