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  1. Napoleonic Sanity Options, 1812

    I'm finding myself obsessed recently with the concept of a maximalist Napoleonic victory, complete French hegemony over Europe from Moscow to Lisbon. However, I can't really figure out how that could be achieved, and I would love it if people here who know more about military history can help me...

  2. What kind of peace would Napoleon impose on Austria and Prussia if he were to win the War of the Sixth Coalition?

    Assume that, following the failure of the invasion in Russia, a Sixth Coalition against Napoleon still forms, with Prussia and Austria among them. However Napoleon somehow manages to win anyway, say because more of the Grand Armee ends up surviving the campaign into Russia, nevermind how exactly...

  3. Without the Peninsular War, would the Iberian powers be able to hold on to their colonies throughout the 19th century?

    As per the title. The disruptions caused by Napoleon directly led to the conditions for independence in both Spain's and Portugal's colonies in the Americas, despite there not really being a local independence movement in the colonies beforehand. However, both powers were on the decline, were...

  4. PC: undoing German\Italian unification in a post-WW scenario

    A not-very-common-but-still-present AH trope is that following one or both of the World Wars, countries like Germany or Italy (depending on which side one in the ATL) which were not yet united until fairly recently in the 19th century, were re-split into their pre-unification constituent states...

  5. Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy if Nappy had a second son?

    So I'm aware that Napoleon planned to inherit his Kingdom of Italy to his second son, should he have one. The thing I'm interested is that, since the IOTL kingdom had strange borders - doesn't include regions such as Liguria, Lazio, Tuscany etc., which were annexed directly to France - would...

  6. Would the Ottoman Empire still join WW1 without the 1913 coup?

    Say that they 1913 coup, which brought the Three Pashas to power in Constantinople, had failed or never attempted. And that otherwise all other international affairs concerning the Ottoman Empire between Jan. 1913 and Oct. 1914 (outcomes of the two Balkan Wars, Goeben and Breslau affair etc.)...

  7. does the Atlantic Wall stand a chance?

    So apparently Gerd Von Rundstedt did not think the Atlantic Wall strategy, i.e. fortifying the coasts of Nazi-occupied Western Europe to deny any possible allied amphibious invasion, is a good strategy. He thought that there's no way to turn it into a proper continuous defensive line that's...

  8. Napoleon's invasion of Russia fails, but not quite so badly?

    Let's say that the invasion of Russia goes more or less as OTL with Napoleon forced to retreat having lost large parts of his army, but due to some combination of reasons such as the Russians being less capable at scorched earth tactics, or maybe the winter is not quite as bad, or he stays a...

  9. PC: southern Italy remains part of the Spanish empire

    with a pod after the end of the War of Spanish Succession, is it possible to have a scenario in which Spain retains the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily? Perhaps either Carlos III or the IV are lone children, meaning there’s no one to hand Naples and Sicily once Carlos III ascends to the Spanish...

  10. AHC: biggest plausible Hapsburg wanks

    I was always fascinated by the Habsburgs because they managed to rise to amass so much power, mostly through solid marriage strategy rather than military or economic might. So that led me to wonder what other thrones could they possibly manage grab? And especially, what's the longest list of...

  11. WI: Stalin drops dead just before the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

    Suppose a scenario where Stalin suffers an unexpected stroke or some freak accident, around late July or early August 1939. By that point, Germany had already determined to go to war with Poland soon, France and Britain had repudiated their policy of appeasement, Soviet-Western talks mostly...

  12. Countries that could have pulled a Braganza/Taiwan

    I’m gonna define “pulling a Braganza” in the following way: a regime that, having its metropole occupied by a foreign power, chooses to relocate itself to one of its colonies, ruling the rump of its empire from the colonies while still claiming the now-occupied metropole. “Pulling a Taiwan” is...

  13. WI the Russians don't back the Ottomans during the first Ottoman-Egyptian war?

    In 1831, Muhammad Ali of Egypt sent an invasion force commanded by his son Ibrahim into Syria. The modernized Egyptian army managed to overpower the Ottoman garrisons of Syria and easily beat back the reinforcements sent by the Sultan to check them, then proceeded to advance into Anatolia. The...

  14. Prussian nationalism?

    What would it take for Prussia to conceive itself as a separate nation from Germany, and not seek to take part in a unified German nation (like Austria IOTL)? It doesn’t mean it has to be completely separate always, a scenario where Prussian nationalism vs. pan-germanism becomes a big debate in...

  15. Possibility of success for the 1798 Irish rebellion

    Inspired by the French Revolution and seeing an opportunity during the revolutionary wars of the times, thousands of Irish rebels rose up in 1798 and attempted to throw off their oppressors. Their initial plan included an attempted rising in Dublin, however this plan was discovered and the plot...

  16. Effects of no Porfiriato

    Say that Porfirio Diaz dies in some freak accident before being able to carry out or plan his revolt and coup in 1876. Do you think Mexico could have remained an elective democracy for the coming decades, ie the period that’s IOTL known as the Porfiriato?

  17. AHC: Alternate names for Bolivia

    The challenge is to find an acceptable alternate name for the country of Bolivia, assuming a post-1800 PoD (i.e. after most of the colonial period has passed, and on the eve of independence) with the rules being: 1. No names like "Upper Peru" or any other name that is relative to another...

  18. WI Josephine gives Napoleon an heir

    When Napoleon and Josephine were married, she was 32 years old, 6 years his senior. She was 38 by the time she was made empress, and by the time they were divorced she was far too old to conceive. This forced Napoleon to divorce her in order to produce an heir, despite his love for her. However...

  19. PC: surviving Tawantinsuyu

    Assume that the Inca are able to defeat the conquistadors in battle, for example in either of the sieges of Cusco in 1533 or 1537. Could that result in a long-lasting Inca empire, surviving for centuries afterward? Mainly I’m interested in knowing whether: 1. Will the aftermath of the failed...

  20. Peninsular war without the invasion of Russia

    Assume that for whatever reason - whether Napoleon beats the Russian army early, or the Russians choose to adhere to the CS, or just Napoleon deciding a full-scale mobilization against Russia is not feasible - the 1812 invasion of Russia by the Grand Armee doesn’t happen, and France is free to...
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