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1. Which Great American Writer would make the best military leader?

   I think that Edgar Allen Poe is the likeliest great American writer to become a brilliant military leader. He actually was a Sergeant Major of artillery before he went to West Point. Say he doesn't drop out of West Point in 1831. When the War of Northern Aggression is launched he will have...

   • Hymie Goldberg
   • Thread
   • Jan 7, 2004
   • Replies: 13
   • Forum: Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900

2. Pyrrhus Burns Rome

   In 281 BC Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, landed in Italy with a large army and immediately began kicking the hell out of the Latin League. He destroyed many of the Italic cities but, before he got to Rome, he left to help Syracuse against a Carthaginian offensive in 278. By not finishing his...

   • Hymie Goldberg
   • Thread
   • Jan 4, 2004
   • Replies: 7
   • Forum: Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900