Chapter 3
“If you had not committed great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you”
-Michiel de Ruyter
Abraham Crijensen struggled to sleep easily these days. The combined attack on Jamaica had gone off without a hitch and the English garrison honestly seemed to...
Chapter 2
1660-1665
The restoration of Charles the second to the throne of England brought somewhat of a reprieve to the conflict, the war was not officially over but large scale action was no longer being taken.
The new English empire's crown prize was Borica, they had taken a...
This is the important part, empires expanded into useless land to prevent others, large parts of British India and Russian Central Asia were not efficient but their value was in preventing rivals from expanding their either
Where on earth are you from, we’re from en-ger-land, where are you from do you put the kettle on
Kick it
Chapter 1
The capture of Saint John
After the service in memorial for the lost soldiers, William penn tapped Richard Fortescue on the shoulder and whispered in his ear, the two left...
I guess the plan seems that Sweden would have a chamber within the company representing their interests, and that chamber would remain somewhat separate, in the way that Holland and zeeland chambers had separate colonies within the west India company and those colonies were somewhat autonomous...
Was reading a book https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/06/19/87/00001/9781947372726_Goslinga.pdf
about the early Dutch west India company, and it mentioned on page 240 Samuel Blommaert attempting in the 1630s to get sweden to join the Dutch west India company and make gotenberg the 6th...
I've read online that the mamluks on return from ain jalut faced a Shia rebellion in cairo which they crushed, i imagine this could be part of the collapse if the mongols win.
The late 13th century had many attempts for mongols to enist crusader support, i can see this being succesful if they...
Hi all, I know somewhat more about British history but I thought others may be more versed in early American history
There were a couple attempts at puritan settlement in the carribean, providence island and Eleuthera in the Bahamas, both didn’t exactly work out,
I was wondering what an...
Battle of ain jalut is often framed as mongol chance to conquer egypt, from discussions i have seen this seems unrealistic, most people say that the mongols were stretched at this point and probably wouldnt be able to or try and take the whole of mamluk egypt
My question is lets say ain jalut...
The context of the 1905 massacres was a russian empire which did not fully back either ethnic group over the other, in this scenario azeris would be shia muslims in a shia muslim state and azeris historically have held lots of high positions in iranian government, unlikely that they would take...
This scenario interests me a lot and i never see anyone discuss it.
On the one hand this would be greater azerbaijian realised and azeri shia turks would probably be the dominant ethnicity in both arm and aze, and they would be in the same state as the southern azeris.
On the other hand...
the spanish needed massive numbers of local collaborators, relying only on spanish troops is just a needless self sabotage, because every spaniard killed takes potentially months to replace from spain while native auxilliaries are right there and in large part were very happy to assist spain in...