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  1. Treatment of Muslims in the Crusader States.

    I'm sure in England it's the hokey-cokey. This because there's an alternative version of the lyrics which goes "You get your razor out/You cut it fine/You roll yourself a tenner/And you snort yourself a line." I don't know about the USA, could well be the hokey-pokey. I'm going there next...

  2. Treatment of Muslims in the Crusader States.

    Something I forgot to mention earlier. About the habits and customs of crusaders. Even as I write this, if you were to walk along Constitution Street in Seville, you would see a large poster, being a photograph of a group of crusaders, waving their swords and shields, exuberantly and drunkenly...

  3. Treatment of Muslims in the Crusader States.

    I read Prof. Zoe Oldenburg's book on the Crusades many years ago, but I seem to recall her mentioning that one of the complaints of later-arrived crusaders was that the original crusaders had "gone native", that is, adopted Middle Eastern lifestyles and customs. I doubt they would have been able...

  4. What if German Luftwaffe Air Force wins Battle of Britain?

    It has always struck me there was something unreal about Sealion. Panzer divs and air units need tons of supply and for supply you need ports. I think the planned landing area encompassed only Dover and Folkestone. Dover is at best a medium port (and access in-and-out is very difficult, if...

  5. Kamikaze Submarines

    There were quite a few attacks on harbours by subs in WW2, pioneered by the Italian manned torpedo attacks on Alexandria and Gibraltar, which, inter alia, crippled two British battleships. The Brits clearly much admired this and set about developing their own forces, including a true mini-sub...

  6. DBWI: Roald Dahl starts writing kids' books

    Dahl wrote a lot of children's books. James and the Giant Peach, The Iron Giant, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (aka Willy-Wonka) Matilda, The Witches and The BFG. He tended to put a lot of adult themes in his kid's books (for instance, there's a big debate about farting in The BFG) because he...

  7. A Bridge Close Enough

    Regarding Nijmegen Bridge PMN is quite right. Guards Armoured had been fighting in Nijmegen town all day and would have needed reflenishment. Further, the road leading from the bridge was on an embankment, so any German panzerfaust team could have held up any further advance (especially at...

  8. American Independence w/o French help?

    You have to look at the English social history of the times. Riots were very common in British cities. The Boston Riots are held to be something special, but were in fact only the continuation of a good old English tradition. I don't know at what point riot shades into revolution: You'ld have to...

  9. American Independence w/o French help?

    I suppose the British could have gathered a few more peasants from Lincolnshire or Somerset or Lancashire and thrust them into red coats and ferried them across the Atlantic (depending on weather, the voyage could take anything from four weeks to three months.) The real point is, they were...

  10. A more capable German military in 1939

    Considering what they did with what they had, I'm not sure the 1939 Wehrmacht needed better tanks. What were they supposed to do with P4s? Beat France? That's what they did with P1s & P2s and a few P3s. Perhaps they could have beaten France quicker but not by much, even if the whole German...

  11. American Independence w/o French help?

    No doubt about that. Even in my Saratoga-lost scenario, once things had settled down and normal trading had been resumed, something like dominion status would have had to be granted.

  12. War of the Prime Meridians.

    Actually there was a deal, all signed and sealed, between the French and British governments. The French agreed to accept Greenwich as prime meridian and the British agreed to accept something the French wanted, I forget what, might have been zones of influence in Africa. Can't even remember the...

  13. American Independence w/o French help?

    The basic question should be, How far does French neutrality go? As is clear from modern times, you can supply arms to a revolutionary movement yet still remain neutral. In the case of the AWI, the French supplied arms and advisers to the Americans before they intervened militarily. The result...

  14. undefeated USA

    The reason the USA was bound to become a hyperpower is the extent of its land and natural resources. It follows that the only way to stop the process is to reduce these things, so Kevin's suggestion is on the right lines. It is an article of faith that the eastern seacoast of the USA (which...

  15. USS Stalingrad

    James Blish had a short story featuring a starship called the "Novoe Washingtongrad." Work that one out.

  16. Colonies of the English Commonwealth

    I doubt that Cromwell's getting into bed with the Dutch was anything more than a temporary thing. Like any good Englishman, he wanted to slag off France and the Dutch would have seemed valuable allies for this purpose. Both the English and the Dutch were aggressively expanding trading nations...

  17. The Most Brilliant Defensive Battle of the Nineteenth Century

    I thought this was about battles, not about what was said during them. However, if the latter, then I appreciate Americans may like McAuliffe's "Nuts" but feel the English may prefer John Frost at Arnhem Bridge, who said, I think, "Tell 'em to bugger off."

  18. Question: What did the US do to end the Empire (and empires)?

    The USAs pressure was essentially financial, the UK having spent itself out. The USA largely stole its export markets, but direct pressure to end the Empire... Apart from this, you can't look at the Empire as a sort of block, there were different considerations for different sections...

  19. Battle of the Atlantic.....

    The idea that the Kriegsmarine would have split this Task Force into two is ill-founded. The Germans were perfectly well aware the RN could usually assemble two battleships. To keep the Bismark/Tirpitz together would force the RN to assemble four battleships, a much more difficult undertaking...

  20. Surface raiders on the North Atlantic 1916-8

    Another point to add to Michael B's list is that the British could read the German naval codes. Actually the Brits were concerned about something of the sort, or at the very least interruptions to the Anglo-Norwegian/Swedish traffic. This took place, with a battlecruiser raid (see the loss of...
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