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Based on the evidence, I can be convinced that the factors are there to make a peace possible. However I think that to be successful any secret peace negotiations would have to be followed by a public armistice and public peace negotiations. Mostly because I don't think there's any modern...

Making the Black Sea Fleet too successful I feel will raise the risk of encouraging increasingly inane landing operations in the Crimea. But that being said, the Soviet Navy definitely had a role in the evacuation of troops and civilians, and in providing fire support.

That being said, Renaissance fencing masters did write about the norms for how a women would fight a judicial duel against a man. It generally involved the women being armed with a brick in a sock or utilizing grappling moves.

Vlad II was chosen as King of Hungary specifically as he wouldn't be an activist monarch. If he had a platform of raising taxes someone else would have been chosen by the Hungarian nobles. As for the Hapsburgs, they seemed to have gotten a good amount of taxes from Hungary so I'm not sure how...

We can draw some inferences based on the careers of the 'False Joans' that sprung up such as Claude des Armoise. And it indicates the reception a real Joan would get in peacetime to be pretty good. Offers of military service in Germany and Italy, tons of admirers willing to host her and give...

Betrothal (Aftermath of Nicopolis) The aftermath of the Battle of Nicopolis saw heavy casualties on both sides. For the crusaders nearly the entire French contribution had been captured or killed, and the other elements of the crusade suffered heavily in the pursuit by Turkish and Serbian...

Germany did do a lot of damage to the Grozny fields with their bombers. Though not sure how comparable that would be considering they were bombing from a shorter distance and with more experience than in 1940.

Its... possible I suppose. Many of Walker's fillibusters were various Europeans who didn't really understand the American fixation on slavery. And William Walker was an immense racist but not necessarily in the same way that the future confederates tried to push slavery simply for the sake of...

In an older post I proposed a scenario for William Walker's victory using a POD at the Second Battle of Rivas with only minimal nudges. It was one of the earliest battles of the war when Nicaragua launched a surprise counterattack and encirclement against the Costa Rican invasion and nearly...

The failure to attract further colonists was at least partially due to the failure to provide adequate security to the countryside imo. To do that would require Jerusalem to secure Ascalon, Aleppo, and Damascus to eliminate the Muslim staging areas for raids. The crusaders had an opportunity to...

The most optimal fief for Godfrey in this scenario would be Ascalon. The crusaders had a chance to do take it during the First Crusade but infighting between Raymond and Godfrey over the divisions of spoils prevented them from doing so. The failure to take the fort would be one of the worst...

From Walker's pov slavery was necessary in the long term to develop Nicaragua's economy and to attract American settlers and business. The idea being they would get black slaves from the American South and potentially from the Afro-Indiginous Mosquito Coast if they could ever get it from...

In my opinion Walker's chances are somewhat underrated here. I do believe he had an opportunity to succeed in his plans for Nicaragua. In regards to the thread question of integrating Nicaragua into America however that runs into a number of other issues. First of course is that Walker wanted...

Most Balkan kingdoms were aware of that problem and issued charters and laws that suited the Vlach's lifestyles. Most commonly an agreement exempting them from taxes as long as provided military services. Or taxing them in pastoral products and labor. As for your actual question, the Crusaders...

Indeed. Marrying Meda was part of Philip's strategy to pacify Thrace and he still needs to do that whether or not he has a son. The noble factions that are predisposed to support Caranus, that being the extended family of Attalus and Parmenion, are also those that have friendly relations with...