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  1. AHC: Left-Hand Traffic in the US, Europe

    As I mentioned in a post above, most people have a stronger right eye--occular dominance. This means that when driving on the Left hand side, that eye has a greater field of view for oncoming traffic. Whether this translates as better road safety, I don't know, one will have to examine the...

  2. AHC: Kill Washington during the American revolution, but...

    Washington accepts the bribe offered by Howe in September 1776 and crosses the lines in Long Island. He is commissioned a Lt General in the British Army and promised a peerage after the war and the governorship of Virginia and lands confiscated from rebels. Commanding combined forces of Regulars...

  3. 18th century European countries: Could any defeat Japan?

    I know who the Duke of Cornwall is and the history of the title, the other guy didn't.

  4. An divided Empire.

    There are several ways to get to a "Fatherland" situation and they don't really need the removal of the Sovereign, who is after all a cypher as far as power is concerned. The importance of the Sovereign lays in the symbolic relationship with subjects (not citizens) of the Empire. In...

  5. French - American war over Mexico?

    In Britain there would be feigned shock and horror. Speeches would be made in Parliament. Restraint would be urged on both sides. British banks would lend even more money to the US at even higher interest rates, the RN would escort British ships taking vital war equipment and supplies to Haifax...

  6. WI: Joseph Kennedy Jr. Lives?

    I wonder how studying under Harold Laski would have affected Joe Junior's political creed? Laski was certainly a big influence on Trudeau and on those who engaged in building socialist states in India and Britain after 1945.

  7. 18th century European countries: Could any defeat Japan?

    OK I concede. Japan is invunerable--come to think of it, they never have been invaded. Who the F is the Earl of Cornwall?

  8. AHC: Left-Hand Traffic in the US, Europe

    Is there any truth in the rumour that New Zealand drives on the Left during the day and switches to the Right at night after the pubs close?

  9. 18th century European countries: Could any defeat Japan?

    No, I was pointing out that outside knowledge of Japan and vice versa still existed in the 18th Century. Indeed it was, but not without tensions. Loyalty maintained by holding families hostage, regional power undermined on a whim. The tensions that erupted at the end of the Shogunate may have...

  10. 18th century European countries: Could any defeat Japan?

    By whom? I worked for Japanese companies for half my life with Japanese bosses and colleagues and carried on business with Japanese partners for years more. I never met any Japanese who was offended by the expression any more than an American would be offended by Yank, or an Englishman, Limey...

  11. 18th century European countries: Could any defeat Japan?

    You are fudging by mixing up the Seven years War, the ARW and the Napoleonic wars. You are though quite right that Britain rarely depended on its own troops, but made good use of allies, mercenaries, levies and local settlers. Another misreading of history is that Britain went around...

  12. Operation Pike

    Some observations:- Bombing Baku Turkey and Iran were neutral in 1940, however Basra, the biggest air base in the Middle East or RAF Habbaniya outside Baghdad were natural bases for an attack, especially as there were four squadrons of Bristol Blenheims in theatre. The French had airbases in...

  13. 18th century European countries: Could any defeat Japan?

    If you are referring to the period 1776-1783, Britain was fighting a war against France, Spain, Holland and some Indian States. The fleets were operational in the Channel, the North and South Atlantic, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Java sea. While protecting the...

  14. Submarine Deck Guns?

    Deck guns were the preferred weapon of attack by U-boats in WW1, but the early use of convoys limited their use in WW2. They were used extensively against stragglers and against the unescorted single vessels off of the US coast during the "second happy time" in early 1942. But as surfacing in...

  15. AHC: Re-Nominate a Presidential Loser

    And Ralph Nader three times! What a shame the US voters passed over Barry Goldwater.

  16. About the survival of Anglo-Saxon England....

    There would still be some Latin influence as the Church and scholarship was locked into that language.

  17. AHC: Left-Hand Traffic in the US, Europe

    Not all changeovers go so smoothly. When Burma changed in the 1970s from Left to Right, the buses were not changed, so passengers (even today) have to spill out into the road, instead of the kerb. The same happened in Nigeria--a very big country where not everyone got the news on time resulting...

  18. AHC: Left-Hand Traffic in the US, Europe

    Design issue? Not having a seat on the cart and having to ride postillion is a design issue?

  19. AHC: Left-Hand Traffic in the US, Europe

    I am afraid that your gearbox theory falls flat for several reasons:- Side of road was established before the appearance of "horseless carriages" in almost all countries. early gearboxes were often floor mounted and foot controlled, or cable operated and sometimes required an assisstant or...

  20. AHC: Left-Hand Traffic in the US, Europe

    OK History lesson here. From the most ancient antiquity "driving" on the left has been the norm. By comparing the depth of ruts dug by carts and chariots on slopes in quarries one can determine which side was the "rule of the road". The Romans kept left, the ancient Greeks kept left, the ancient...
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