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« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2008, 04:55:55 PM »

I'm taking that there is no Anglo-Japanese Alliance in this timeline.  I was fully expecting the Japanese to be threatening the American Pacific Coast with naval raids and helping to defend British North America from the Yankee depredations.
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« Reply #26 on: January 27, 2008, 10:33:55 PM »

I'm surprised that Finland is still in Russian hands.  The Grand Duchy of Finland was the place pre-Great War that had the most autonomy in the Russian Empire and there was a short lived Kingdom of Finland in 1918 with one of the Kaiser's brothers-in-law, Prince Frederick of Hesse being elected King by the Finnish Parliament.

More importantly, how did the Pacific get carved up?  Is Tahiti and the rest of French Polynesia now American?
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« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2008, 05:48:06 PM »

The only good thing about MacArthur was that unlike some generals, he was willing to butcher his own troops to gain a victory.  Unfortunately he had a tendency to do the same even when it wasn't necessary, as the 32nd Division found out in New Guinea.

By the way, considering that it is led by a sergeant, the ANL wouldn't happen to use the following banner, would it?

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« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2008, 04:48:21 PM »

While not quite the Middle East, given the historical relations in OTL between the United States and Morocco. I could easily see Morocco being a U.S. ally as they try to keep from being gobbled up by the perfidious French and Spanish.
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« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2008, 11:42:12 PM »

Nothing has happened in this timeline that would require that American-Moroccan relations be butterflied into something different from our timeline. 
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« Reply #30 on: January 18, 2009, 01:38:39 PM »

Why did Spain get Southwest Africa?  Did Britain not already have Walvis Bay in this timeline?  It would be a considerable change for there to be no Anglosphere interest in SWA.
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« Reply #31 on: January 25, 2009, 09:06:40 PM »

1At his inauguration, Robert had two children, both girls: Alice Eleanor Lee (born in 1945) and Sara Ellen Lee (born in 1948).

I expect that Sara will be the more popular princess, since nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.
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« Reply #32 on: February 06, 2009, 02:31:14 PM »

I think Carolina's TLPA would be likelier to be CR than CL.  (Of course, unless butterflies have flapped TLPA's aren't in use yet.)  The abbreviation that would have been in use would have been Car. and when the Post Office Department came up with the TLPA's they based them on the earlier variale length standard abbreviations that had been in use (such as Tex. for Texas, which became TX.)  A side effect would be that California's TLPA would likely be CF, and CA wouldn't even be used to avoid possible confusion.
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« Reply #33 on: July 15, 2009, 03:54:15 PM »

I have to say, this is one of the best timelines I have ever read. It rivals even those of Harry Turtledove, at least the Confederate one. (The Alien Intervention in World War II series was.....weird). And the fact you are doing this with only history as a base, makes it even more incredible. You should polish your writings, and begin releasing it as a series.

I've never liked Turtledove.

Turtledove writes crap.

Turtledove is a fairly good short story writer who because of the realities of what it pays for an author to write these days, writes "novels" that are little more than a threaded together assemblage of short stories with a common setting since that's what pays.
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« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2009, 07:11:25 PM »

That evening we were briefed and I was told the story that will one day be in every American history textbook, under the bold heading “The Maddox Incident.” The Maddox, a destroyer outside Algiers aiding in supplying the city, had triggered a French naval mine. The resulting explosion, which would sink the ship, was thought to be an attack by other American ships, which then opened fire on the harbor. A skirmish ensued and a lot of lives were lost due to a stupid mistake.

It's fairly obvious why you chose the USS Maddox for this "honor", but who was the ship named for?  Because of the significant differences in how you handled the conquest of California in this timeline from OTL, it is extremely unlikely that a destroyer would be named for 2nd. Lt. William A. T. Maddox USRMC, as unlike his counterpart in OTL, he would never have become Military Commandant of the Middle District of California since there was a significant force of the Royal Army there.  Even if it were named after  William A. T. Maddox, he must have risen to prominence in a different fashion.
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