In this scenario, there is no way in hell that Charles VIII rejects her for Anne of Brittany.
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Charles VIII married Anne in December 1491 (and the Pope annulled Anne’s wedding to Maximilian in February 1492) so that damage was already done and Margaret lost for him
Crap, I forgot that. Well, who does Margaret wed in this scenario as Duchess of Burgundy then?
Kill Elizabeth of York off in childbirth with Henry or Elizabeth and have her wed Henry VII. It's not as though England and Burgundy haven't had a long-standing alliance, after all.
Well, Philibert of Savoy is a cadet of Savoy and his late mother was a sister of Peter of Bourbon so he could be an option…
Bytor
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Why would NY secede? There was only insignificant popular support for it, with only Fernando Wood speaking for it, and we know how quickly things changed from the state being indifferent to Lincoln to its fervent support of the Union after Fort Sumter. Definitely ASB.
Karl der Große
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As an option how about New York gets significantly worse draft riots? To the point it lessens support for the war in all the mid Atlantic states.
I have recently been deep diving into Native American naval history, and pre-Colombian contact theories and I have been wondering: were there any opportunities for Native Americans to improve their naval capabilities to the point where they could have sustained contact with other continents?
There are two very probable chances for this two occur, and those are)
1)The Tlingit, or some other Pacific Northwest Native American people, invent the outrigger canoe, say around 250 AD
2) The peoples of Costal Pacific South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile) around 1200 AD adopt the outrigger canoe from Polynesians, and the Polynesians adopt the sail from the Native Americans.
What would be the effects of such naval advancement and contact for Native Americans?
(I also posted a thread about the first option, so feel free to check it out.)
There are two very probable chances for this two occur, and those are)
1)The Tlingit, or some other Pacific Northwest Native American people, invent the outrigger canoe, say around 250 AD
2) The peoples of Costal Pacific South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile) around 1200 AD adopt the outrigger canoe from Polynesians, and the Polynesians adopt the sail from the Native Americans.
What would be the effects of such naval advancement and contact for Native Americans?
(I also posted a thread about the first option, so feel free to check it out.)
If the islands had broken away and established an officially neutral confederation, they would be leaving British colonial rule when it was dominant (French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars), so, British would defeat and annex the neutral confederation and things would return to otl with minimal to no butterflies.
Grey Wolf
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Yes, it would be very difficult to break away, declare your independence and convince your former masters of your "neutrality". They would still just see you as rebels needing to be subjugated. Only if you can get meaningful support from another power can you assert this independence in any longer-term way, and of course that is not neutrality, but either alliance of vassalship.
Bytor
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The draft riots in New York City happened two years into the war, and they weren't anything to do with a pro slavery stance of any group. The riots were a reaction of working class Irish-Americans to the ability of rich Americans to buy their way out of the draft.
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As the alternative to Rome or in a situation where two rival Popes reign?
You might develop a situation where major powers choose their own allegiance, and eventually you have a system of Catholic CHURCHES each with a Pope at the head, similar to how in the Orthodox world each of Greece, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Egypt etc has their OWN head of the church
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Unlikely, well could happen in practice, but they won't recognize each other's legitimacy.
The Eastern Churches claim legitimacy from their own patriarchs, the Western from the Bishop of Rome.
There is only ever going to be 1 Bishop of Rome, even if he doesn't reside in Rome itself.
History of the Bahamas - Wikipedia
The Bahamas, in addition to its historic Spanish and British colonizers, were also targeted by planned colonialism from the Netherlands and France. If the planned attempts by the Netherlands and France succeeded, and assuming no butterflies outside of the Bahamas, the net effect would be the Bahamas being Dutch if colonized by the Netherlands and the Bahamas being French if colonized by France until avoidance of American and Spanish conquest of the Bahamas during the American Revolutionary War. After the American Revolutionary War, the Bahamas would share Guadeloupe's fate if colonized by France and Aruba's fate if colonized by the Netherlands, while Florida would either be captured by the American Revolutionary War Spaniards directly or British (and maybe independent) during and after the American Revolutionary Wars, even if the rest of the world's history proceeded as in otl.
By the way, Portugal also tried to colonize Barbados, Greenland, Labrador, St. Pierre and Miquelon and Bermuda, but failed. If Portugal succeeded, and assuming minimal to zero butterflies in the rest of the world, Barbados, Greenland, Labrador, St. Pierre and Miquelon and/ or Bermuda (depending on the colony being Portuguese colonized) would be Portuguese until general Portuguese decolonization since 1975 and independent since 1975.
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History of Anguilla - Wikipedia
Anguilla, in addition to its historic British colonizers, was also targeted by planned colonialism from Spain, the Netherlands and France. If the planned attempts by Spain, the Netherlands and France succeeded, and assuming no butterflies outside of Anguilla, the net effect would be Anguilla being Dutch if colonized by the Netherlands and Anguilla being French if colonized by France until avoidance of British colonization of Anguilla, even if the rest of the world's history proceeded as in otl. Any Spanish colonization of Anguilla, if done and assuming no butterflies on the world outside of Anguilla, would result in Anguilla being American controlled since the Spanish-American War.
Could a surviving Jagiellonian Hungary be able to attract foreign Protestant settlement on its constantly depopulated Southern Frontiers with such incentives as local religious freedom and collective privileges (in exchange for military obligations)? (Something along the lines of the OTL Military Frontier and the Hajdú district.)
Or would the constant raids and small war with the Turks be a too strong deterring force for such scheme to succeed?
Or would the constant raids and small war with the Turks be a too strong deterring force for such scheme to succeed?