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Post by Crisco on May 10, 2004 17:33:57 GMT -5
We'll start this one off with a popular topic...the American Civil War. What do you think would have been needed for the C.S.A. to win, and how would this effect international affairs (ie. WWI)?
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Post by The Dint Factor on May 11, 2004 22:37:36 GMT -5
my gut instinct is it would either take some amazing turn of events like the USA not obtaining the plans from the CSA for the big final battle
or the ever popular British French blockade and forced surrender of the US to cede CSA territories to CSA control and the recognition that the CSA is an autonomous nation.
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Post by Wendell on May 13, 2004 23:42:50 GMT -5
Actually, a victory for George McClellan in the Election of 1864 might have done the trick. He vowed a negotiated settlement if he had won.
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Post by Murphy on Jun 7, 2004 12:29:19 GMT -5
In a way I agree with wendell. A change of who is in charge is what would be needed...
For a southern victory, Lee would have to have been removed, I am working on it...A different general in charge, I am thinking it would need to be Longstreet..
This might cause the other changes, who supports the CSA and who is union president.. Three for the price of one..
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Post by Wendell on Jul 31, 2004 0:17:09 GMT -5
I always considered Lee to be the best General that the CSA had, so your thoughts, Murphy, are quite interesting. ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png)
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Post by KiwiChron on Aug 11, 2004 12:56:33 GMT -5
I think the key ways the CSA could have won are within the battles themselves. If Gettysberg, for example, had swung the other way. I think that a military victory for the CSA, or at least a strategic stalemate, would have meant only a subtly different future. Economic necessity would have pushed the CSA into some form of co-operation with the north because it lacked an industrial base. Where economic aims coincide, so do international aims, so WWI would have seen USA/CSA troops fighting at least side by side, if not as one 'American' force.
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Post by nietzschian on Jul 12, 2005 17:19:13 GMT -5
I think history would have resembled the stories by Harry Turtledove.
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