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The Spanish forces actually outnumbered the U.S. ones in the Spanish-American War; what actually did the Spanish in was the Cuban and Filipino independence movements and the USN bitch-slapping their squadrons at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba -the Spanish ended up recalling the rest of their...

Well, when I mentioned the Saarland I meant that as “the most France could hope to grab” not that that would be what they actually get. As far as creating a separate kingdom goes, given his uncle’s track record and then his own, I doubt the British would buy the excuse of “Oh it’s totally a...

The only ways that France wins are 1) she doesn’t go to war with Prussia at all or 2) she fires all of her generals and replaces them with competent or better replacements. Problem there is, France is obsessed with a centralized chain of command and in routing all of its logistics through Paris...

While it would likely result in Bismarck getting sacked and the status quo of the 1850s, it probably only delays the rise of Germany rather than prevents it. German nationalism as a whole was on a serious rise, and anything that seeks to check it probably results in the Germans taking a swipe at...