The What If? Thread

[Magnus]

....Gustavus II Adolphus hadn't been killed on the battelfield of Lützen at the young age of 37? He brought Sweden to the pinnacle of its power - give the man who revolutionized combat and fielded the first 'modern' army 20 or 30 more years, and think what Sweden may have become? Perhaps a Great Power on the order of a Germany or France.

 

[smokeyjoe]

What if the British / Hanoverian accession rules had been the same? Hanover would have remained under the rule of Victoria, rather than pass to (I think) her uncle, and the formation of the German Empire may not have happened. Austria could still be a prominant force in Europe.

And on the slight statistical difference note, what if the wound that lost Nelson his eye had killed him? No Trafalger, no Nile, no Copenhagen, a French invasion of Britain, conquest of India and the middle east?