"For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne had won at Saratoga" Topic
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Tango01 | 19 Jun 2019 10:18 p.m. PST |
"For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Robert Sobel takes a step sideways and presents the alternative version: reinforcements arrive at Saratoga, Gates' men flee, and Burgoyne is victorious. Rather than openly allying itself with the American rebels, France withdraws its support, as does Spain, and the colonies surrender. Those former rebels who refuse to live in the Confederation of North America established by the British leave their homes and settle in what becomes the United States of Mexico. From then on the two continental nations find themselves constant rivals, locked in military, political and economic conflict. Sobel provides a detailed, intricately documented insight into two warring powers that develop in such dramatically different ways from their shared origins" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Pan Marek | 20 Jun 2019 9:56 a.m. PST |
Alternative histories can be fun, but often at the expense of plausibility. The notion that a significant number of English Americans, likely Presbyterians (Presbyterians disproportionately favored the rebels), would go live in Catholic by law, still Spanish controlled Mexico is a bit too far for me. |
Tango01 | 20 Jun 2019 11:32 a.m. PST |
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